This pandemic has changed perspectives for people from all walks of life. For award-winning portrait artist Áine Divine it’s been a catalyst for doing whatever makes her heart sing. No longer tied to the studio from 9-5, she has been working more and more in mixed media, painting what’s to […]
Highlights
Shortly after 9am on February 15, 1921, a train heading westwards from Cork City, pulled in to Upton railway station, midway between Crossbarry and Innishannon. One of its carriages was carrying members of the dreaded Essex Regiment and IRA Brigade Commander Charlie Hurley was lying in wait with an ambush […]
Meals on Wheels is one of those services that encapsulates everything that is good in a community: Selfless acts and words of kindness. The small team of valuable volunteers who keep the Clonakilty show on the road provide not only nourishment, but social support to the elderly and vulnerable in […]
It’s been a tough ten months; January felt like it would never end and the finish line seems to be moving all the time. Our lives have literally been turned upside down: Children are out of school, parents out of work and rising Covid numbers have confined us back to […]
Paul Healy is the General Manager of the Rubicon Centre, Ireland’s largest enterprise incubator centre, which he has grown since it opened in 2006. With over 25 years’ experience in developing start-ups/scale ups across all technology sectors, Paul has first-hand experience of raising finance, accessing new opportunities, strategy, and company […]
December marked the end of an era for the Baltimore Lifeboat with the retirement of Coxswain Kieran Cotter after 45 years of service. At age 17, Kieran first became interested in Baltimore Lifeboat and he officially joined the crew on January 1, 1975. In the early years as a crew […]
