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Cape Clear Observatory

WCP Staff September, 2023

It seems appropriate that, as the Branch’s next event is an outing to Cape Clear, this island and its Bird Observatory should be the focus of this month’s article writes Nicholas Mitchell. Cape Clear is now the only Bird Observatory in Ireland. It came into being when five young Englishmen […]

Simple Study eyes European expansion plans

WCP Staff September, 2023

Although Simple Study supported more than 17,000 Irish students in exam preparation last year, its founders, Phillip McKenna, Oisin Devoy and Zac Dair, are not resting on their laurels. Instead the West Cork tech trio continue to innovate and plan to expand into Europe in the new few months. An […]

Korean Natural Farming can increase the health of soil in West Cork

Tommy Moyles September, 2023

West Cork has a wide and varied range of agricultural practices and now Korean Natural Farming can be added to the list. Initially developed in South Korea in the 1960s by a man named Cho Han Kyu, Korean Natural Farming or KNF aims is to maximise farm productivity while minimising […]

Skibbereen Medical Centre launches dedicated Women’s Health Clinic

WCP Staff July, 2023

The brainchild of Dr Paula Stanley, an innovative model of care focusing on women’s health is being rolled out in West Cork, with appointments now being taken for the next clinic taking place on July 7. After returning from London early this year where she worked as a GP specialising […]

West Cork spoiled for choice at this year’s Fit-Up Theatre festival

WCP Staff July, 2023

Theatre lovers are once again getting ready to embrace the best of professional dramatic performance at this year’s Fit-Up Theatre festival, which runs from July 11 to August 6, in towns, villages and islands all over West Cork. With a nod to the tradition of Fit-Up theatre of the 1950s, […]

Proposed quarry poses risk to Murragh and quality of Bandon River

Fiona Hayes July, 2023

Travel downstream along the Bandon River and a few kilometres east of Enniskeane you will pass under a beautiful freestanding six-arch rubble stone road bridge, built c.1740. It is listed by the ‘National Inventory of Architectural Heritage’ as “An expertly built bridge elegantly spanning the Bandon River. Despite its frequent […]

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