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Covid-19 World Experience Series: “I miss you” from Amsterdam

WCP Staff April, 2020

After graduating from her Masters in Public International Law at Utrecht University three years ago, Niamh O’Dwyer from West Cork decided to stay on in the Netherlands. She is now living and working in Amsterdam. Niamh recalls when the seriousness of the current situation really started to really sink in […]

Covid-19 World Experience Series: Self-isolating in Siberia

WCP Staff April, 2020

Anna Kosjanenko and her family live in Omsk, a city of 1.5 million people in the South West of Siberia. Siberia is a vast Russian province encompassing most of Northern Asia. The winters there get very cold (-30C) and right now it is zero degrees outside. Anna works for an […]

Covid-19 World Experience Series: Waiting for the rainbow

WCP Staff March, 2020

A native of Clonakilty in West Cork, Julie O’Brien-Grodewald moved to New York City in February 2002, when she was 21. Like so many other emigrants she worked hard, sometimes holding down two or three jobs at a time, and eventually saved up enough to go into partnership in a […]

Network Cork’s free webinar on effective communication in the ‘new normal’

WCP Staff March, 2020

The latest edition of a newly launched series of free live webinars by Network Ireland Cork will focus on engaging key audiences in the ‘new normal’. Rolled out to support businesses during the Covid-19 public health situation, the Network’s upcoming online seminar features Susie Horgan, Managing Director of leading communications […]

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Thriving not just surviving – Planning for the unexpected!

WCP Staff March, 2020

Network Ireland West Cork hosted their first webinar event live on Friday last, entitled ‘Thriving not just Surviving – Planning for the Unexpected’. Speakers included Network Ireland West Cork President and owner of West Cork Eggs, Caroline Murphy, Sales and Leadership Coach and Business Mentor, Sarah Leather and Nurse Consultant, […]

Starting with fruit

WCP Staff March, 2020

Starting to grow fruit sounds daunting, but fruit-growing is less demanding than growing vegetables or annual flowers, and most soft fruit is really easy, as Deborah Ballard, Future Forests explains – especially now that so many of us have the time to work in the garden. If you have the […]

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