Offering the best of professional dramatic performance, this year’s Fit-Up Theatre Festival runs from July 8 to August 3, in towns, villages and islands all over West Cork. With a nod to the tradition of Fit-Up theatre of the 1950s, the West Cork Fit-Up Theatre Festival has been providing rural […]
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As the world population grows Aquaculture is considered vital to global food security and so is expected to continue expanding in the coming years. In Ireland Aquaculture employs around 2,000 people with mussel farming accounting for around 317 jobs, nevertheless Kinsale residents, backed by all of the area’s councillors, have […]
Pádraig Whooley of the Irish Whale and Dolphin Group (IWDG) and the ‘Save our Sprat West Cork’ campaign explains why sprat, along with a handful of other forage fish, are critically important keystone species and the detrimental effect their decline will have on coastal communities in West Cork. Sprat feed […]
In March I wrote a column encouraging people to take part in a public consultation process, for a project aimed at reviving a neglected part of Clonakilty. The public consultation was to inform an Integrated Urban Strategy (IUS) for Kent Street (the street the library is on), identifying how public […]
The heritage council defines traditional buildings as those constructed before World War II. There are estimated to be 270,000 traditional buildings in Ireland that were built prior to 1945. A traditional building doesn’t necessarily indicate that the property is of particular architectural or historical merit (i.e a listed or protected […]
An audience of over 200 guests gathered at the Westlodge Hotel in Bantry on Friday, May 9, to celebrate the remarkable young people of the region and their community spirit and achievements at the 29th West Cork Garda Youth Awards, held in association with SuperValu. Among the standout awardees was […]