by Steve Wing, Ornithologist Cape Clear? Why go there? There’s nothing out there to do – or see! Here’s why! From the moment you leave Baltimore Harbour on the Cailin Oir 11, you are immersed in the beauty of Roaringwater Bay, the 100 Carbery Islands (at low water, admittedly!) and […]
Health & Lifestyle
A new Native Animals of Ireland trail, which opened this Easter weekend at Inish Beg Estate, Baltimore, is ready to be explored. Wind along a path through the trees to spot and name the 10 native species and claim your reward. This addition to the already popular fairy house trail and […]
by Sara Devoy “To find health should be the object of the doctor. Anyone can find disease.” – A.T. Still From as early as I can remember I have been interested in health. When I came to Ireland in 1990, I was completing training in Polarity therapy, I set up […]
PEccles Hotel in Glengarriff is well on the way to becoming the destination resort that its General Manager David Manning envisioned when he set himself the challenge just over a year ago. New life has been breathed into this beautiful old building – you can almost hear Thackeray, Shaw and […]
With the publication in April of the fifth interim report of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation, the disturbing spectre of the dead who were confined in those institutions of shame and segregation continues to haunt us. Although the women and infants who died in those institutions were […]
Photo : Kathleen Holland, Virgin Mary Shell Bracelet Two West Cork-based designers have been selected for the Design and Craft Council of Ireland’s Irish Craft Village at Bloom, celebrating its 13th anniversary in the Phoenix Park, Dublin between May 30 and June 3. Jeweller Kathleen Holland and surface pattern designer […]