Abi O’Callaghan-Platt is one of the core members of BROD. She is an environmental scientist who was raised in West Cork and returned five years ago to raise her two children here. While lockdown prevents many of us from connecting with our community it can also offer new opportunities to […]
Health & Lifestyle
In this series of articles Diana Radeva, child and adolescent psychotherapist sets out to consider the emotional life of children from birth onwards; and how relationships between children and parents evolve over time. It is a view of human growth, which recognises the importance of strong feelings experienced at each […]
From the early 1990s, I was a committee member of The West Cork Peto Fund, Bandon, whose aim was to provide Conductive Education, through bringing conductors from Budapest, to work with children and adults with motor disabilities in West Cork. Conductive Education (CE) was developed and researched by András Peto, […]
In between storms and torrential rain the green things are struggling to come back, valiantly pushing ahead anytime there’s a ray of sunshine. Spinach, chard, rocket, nettles and wild garlic are all growing again. Most of our spinach and chard have weathered the winter outside. At one point, when it […]