The Clonakilty Area Sports Club community employment scheme (CASG) has been working in the community in some shape or form for the last 30 years and the experience over the last 15 months has perhaps been a reminder of just how important that work is. Community employment (CE) provides an […]
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“Everyone deserves the same chance at life,” says humanitarian aid worker and UCC law graduate Amy Boyden from Bantry “and it should not be determined by where you were born.” Amy is volunteering at a refugee camp on Lesvos in Greece and shares her heartrending experience with West Cork People […]
Premier Face Painting Ireland based in Bantry has been awarded ‘Best Professional Face Painting and entertainment company Company’ in the Irish Enterprise Awards 2021. The face behind this colourful enterprise is Bantry native Selena Cassidy, who shares that while she may have started the business on a wing and a […]
Mindset and Confidence Coach Anna Healy has always hankered for adventure or, as her family might put it, she was “mad for road”. The road this Kerry native took in life eventually led her to starting her own business in 2019. With a fierce desire to help and empower others […]
In 2020, ‘Handmade by Kata’ metamorphosed into ‘Cotton Caterpillars’ and introduced itself to the world. With the help of her Local Enterprise Office business owner and creator Kata O’Donovan brought her rebranded vibrant and funky organic cotton range from Clonakilty to Dublin to Showcase Ireland at the RDS. Suddenly Cotton Caterpillars […]
Students from Colaiste na Toirbhirte Bandon were awarded the prize for most Innovative Social Media in the Senior Category at the National Final of this year’s Student Enterprise Programme. Supported by Local Enterprise Office Cork North and West, Kate O’Connor and Emily Barry of Hook R Strike took one of […]