Health & Lifestyle - West Cork People

Where does your bacon come from?

Mary O'Brien June, 2019

Senior Research Officer at Teagasc based at Moorepark in Fermoy, Dr Laura Boyle, was recently awarded the prestigious 2019 British Society of Animal Science (BSAS) and Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) award for Innovative Development in Animal Welfare. Dr Boyle received the award in recognition […]

Miscarriage grief

WCP Staff May, 2019

Amanda Roe If you have experienced a pregnancy loss, first of all I’d like to say I’m sorry, you are probably feeling more sadness than you ever thought possible. I want to reassure you that you are not alone and to help others empathise with something they may not understand. […]

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Treasure the island

WCP Staff May, 2019

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 […]

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Going full circle in fields of health

WCP Staff May, 2019

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 […]

The next chapter at Eccles

WCP Staff May, 2019

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 […]

Living Well with the Confined Dead forum

WCP Staff May, 2019

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 […]

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