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Adventures of a workawayer

Fionnuala Harkin November, 2025

My favourite part of the day was the chicken watch, mid-afternoon and usually sunny and warm. I was volunteering on a farm in Italy as a ‘workaway’, and one of my jobs was letting the chickens out for their daily run and getting them back safely into the coop. The […]

Genocide and the countries that have committed it

Kieran Doyle November, 2025

Paradoxically as it sounds, there are rules to war. Out of the ashes of World War Two, the United Nations sought to “minimise the suffering under conditions of war”. This is referred to as ‘Jus ad Bellum’. The thought process was no matter how bad war is, there must be […]

Feel Good Festival time

WCP Staff October, 2025

Too many people to count will be taking part in the 13th West Cork Feel Good Festival (WCFGF) but Moze Jacobs gives us a taste of what to expect. The festival started harmoniously on October 1 with a ‘Feel-Good‘ Singing Workshop led by Caz Jeffreys at Levis’ Corner House (Ballydehob). […]

Inside the teen mind: Why viral trends like ‘6‑7’ matter more than you think

Tatjana Simakova October, 2025

Scroll through TikTok or check your teen’s Snapchat feed, and you’ll probably notice something strange, like them obsessing over something called ‘6‑7’. Maybe it’s a number, a phrase, a quirky inside joke, or some emoji combination that makes zero sense to adults. It seems like every other week, a new […]

Unwelcome animal immigrants

Dr Jeremy A. Dorman October, 2025

There are alien animals living wild all over the world – hippopotamuses in Colombia, camels in Australia, stoats in New Zealand, Burmese pythons in Florida. There are parakeets in England, slow worms in the Burren and wallabies in the Irish Sea. And now we have hornets in Cork. There are […]

A Clonakilty staycation

Fionnuala Harkin October, 2025

A ‘staycation’, according to the dictionary, is a holiday spent ‘in, or in the neighbourhood of, one’s own home’. So, I’m not sure this qualifies as a travel piece, but it is definitely a holiday story, just without the travel bit. Every August for the last few years, my mother […]

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