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Clóna Dairies and National Dairy Council to host health and wellbeing event in Dunmore

WCP Staff May, 2023

A special health and wellbeing event is being held by Clóna Dairies and the National Dairy Council at Dunmore House in Clonakilty on Thursday May 11 in aid of West Cork Rapid Response. Speakers at the event will include dietician Aoife McDonald, chef Martin Shanahan of Fish Fishy restaurant, Stella O’Malley, […]

A Spanish classic topped with egg

Karen Austin May, 2023

April and May are known as the hungry gap in the gardening world but not in our garden where we’re consuming colonies of cauliflowers and infinite amounts of spinach and kale. The spinach and kale are giving their last ditch effort before reaching for the sky and going to seed; […]

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A feast for foodies as Clonakilty Street Carnival returns

WCP Staff May, 2023

West Cork’s renowned annual street carnival returns to Clonakilty on Saturday June 17, 2023 after a four-year break due to Covid restrictions. Since its inception in 2016, the Clonakilty Street Carnival has seen huge crowds flock to the multi-award-winning seaside town. The colourful main streets are transformed into a foodie […]

Nuts about carrots

Karen Austin April, 2023

Looking out of the glasshouse the other day, thinking about which recipe I could write this month, it came to me how much tastier our lives would be if everyone could grow their own salad and herbs. I know this may sound problematic for people that live in small spaces […]

Burgers with attitude

WCP Staff April, 2023

If ambition is the path to success then Alex Nowotynski, 28, is surely on it. The good-humoured mountain biking fanatic born and bred in Drinagh, who learnt the gourmet burger trade from the late Frankie Murphy of Frankie’s Badass Burgers and has been carrying on his legacy since 2018, is […]

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Passionate about cacao

WCP Staff April, 2023

Clonakilty chocolatier Allison Roberts was just 12-years-old when she first dipped her finger into making and selling chocolate. While she took a break to study Globalisation and Consumerism at University, a subject she says that left her lost and jaded, after moving from Canada to Ireland in 2008, her passion […]

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