Highlights - West Cork People

English language school looking forward to a busy season in Schull

WCP Staff April, 2023

Ireland is the number one per capita destination in the world for learners of English with an estimated 204,000 international students coming here in 2019 to study English and staying for an average of 6.5 weeks. It is estimated that the combined direct, indirect and induced value of the sector […]

Burgers with attitude

WCP Staff April, 2023

If ambition is the path to success then Alex Nowotynski, 28, is surely on it. The good-humoured mountain biking fanatic born and bred in Drinagh, who learnt the gourmet burger trade from the late Frankie Murphy of Frankie’s Badass Burgers and has been carrying on his legacy since 2018, is […]

A story of houses of West Cork and County Cork in the year 1911

WCP Staff April, 2023

Holger Smyth, Inanna Rare Books, Skibbereen, revisits houses shown in the rare Hodges publication ‘Cork and County Cork in the Twentieth Century’. Episode 3: Norton, Skibbereen, the home of solicitor and Teachta Dála, Jasper Travers Wolfe Norton, originally ‘Norton Cottage’, still towers prominently, overlooking the River Ilen and the West […]

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LEADER may return to West Cork

Mary O'Brien April, 2023

West Cork Development Partnership CLG, who successfully operated the programme in large parts of west and south Cork between 1991 and 2016, has been invited by the Department of Rural and Community Development to develop a Local Development Strategy to deliver the 2023 – 2027 LEADER Programme. The LEADER Programme […]

No ‘knead’ for anything else

WCP Staff April, 2023

Called the ‘staff of life’ because it is a basic food that supports life in almost every global culture, the world of bread is vast and varied. However, by using only the highest quality ingredients, Wildflour bakery in Innishannon has risen above the fray to become a West Cork favourite. […]

The best of Breton in a West Cork crepe

Mary O'Brien April, 2023

‘Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans’ is a saying that is particularly true of West Cork, which has a way of often drawing people down unexpected life paths! For Linda Shaw-Hamilton and Sebastian (Seb) Carava of La Creperie, when they moved their family from […]

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