Highlights - West Cork People

Walking the line between liberalism and tolerance: Racism and literature

Kieran Doyle October, 2020

Ireland has reinvented itself in the twenty first century. It has emerged from the shadows and secrets of the 1900s. We have dismantled draconian laws against gay people. We have allowed literature and the arts to flourish when censorship forced some of our greatest writers to flee our shores like […]

Clon connections to Cork success in 1945

WCP Staff September, 2020

While winter might be a strange time of year to see Cork GAA in championship action, the football match against Kerry is a rivalry we’re all familiar with. Pre Covid saw a number of Clonakilty players donning the county red with Sean White, Maurice Shanley, Thomas Clancy and Liam O’Donovan […]

Baltimore-buit wooden sail cargo vessel offers an eco-friendly sustainable alternative

WCP Staff September, 2020

Ireland’s only surviving wooden sail cargo vessel revived a tradition lost a century ago when it embarked on a symbolic series of sustainable wind-powered supply trips to islands on the south and west coasts last month. The Ilen, which was built in Baltimore in West Cork in 1926, is Ireland’s […]

Future of the environment in the hands of the people

Fiona Hayes September, 2020

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is the leading global environmental authority that sets the global environmental agenda. Its role includes implementation of the environmental dimension of the United Nations (UN) sustainable development goals and to serve as an authoritative advocate for the global environment. UNEP’s mission is to provide […]

Discovering a different way of schooling

WCP Staff September, 2020

For so many of us homeschooling during lockdown was an exhausting trial; in fact the collective sigh of relief when the schools reopened recently could be heard all over the country. Although of course there were fun and satisfying aspects to it as well ¬– most of these were reserved […]

Bantry doctor shares his experience as a critically ill patient with Covid-19

WCP Staff September, 2020

Dr. Owen O’Flynn is a 23-year-old trainee doctor from Bantry who spent time at the ICU in Cork University Hospital as a critically ill patient with Covid-19. Dr O’Flynn, will share his experience at the Covid-19 National COVID Research and Scientific Meeting on September 5, which will be attended by medical […]

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