Skibbereen Rowing Club might have claimed the headlines for the sport in West Cork but the Castletownshend Club has had their own success. Jack Calnan was the cox for the quartet that won bronze in World Coastal Rowing Championships for Ireland last month. Ella Cialis, Karen Hickey, Orla Hayes and […]
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Sleep support for families of children with additional needs is one of Sarah Murray’s niche areas, as she recognises that sleep is a crucial foundation for early intervention and behaviour support. Thirty to thirty-five per cent of children under the age of five will suffer some form of difficulty with […]
The West Cork Feel Good Festival, running now for a decade, will this year take place from October 1 to October 19, in conjunction with World Mental Health Day (October 10), the theme of which is ‘Make mental health and wellbeing for all a global priority’. So what better way […]
In a new historical series starting in November, Holger Smyth of Inanna Rare Books will introduce us each month to a West Cork house detailed in a rare publication by Reverend Richard J. Hodges and W.T. Pike, a massive volume of historical photographs and stories about the big houses and […]
A treasure trove of oral history about the 1916-23 revolutionary period, most of which is previously unrecorded, is now available worldwide thanks to the team at Skibbereen Heritage Centre and the support of Cork County Council. The ‘Stories of the Revolution’ project involved 823 children from 48 schools all around […]
Pat and Ann Marie Kiely are no strangers to the restaurant scene in West Cork. For 10 years, the couple celebrated a number of awards and recognitions at their restaurant in Bantry, not least keeping O’Connor’s recommended listing in the reputed Michelin Guide for nine years in a row. The […]