Gardaí in West Cork have teamed up with Ballydehob Community Alert Group to give care packs to up to 200 elderly residents promoting crime prevention and the importance of hand hygiene during these challenging times. A high proportion of Mizen residents are over the age of 70 and Gardaí from Schull and […]
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As part of the Phased Reopening, Cork County Council has developed plans to ensure that Schull can safely reopen in line with the latest public health guidelines. Schull is delighted to be included on the list of towns to be prioritised by Cork County Council. The tremendous effort they are making to ensure Schull is a safe and welcoming place […]
Clonakilty woman, Evie Nevin, has accepted an invitation to sit on EmployAbility’s West Cork board. Evie ran in last year’s local elections for the Social Democrats and later was elected to the National Executive as Vice Chairperson of her party. EmployAbility founded in 2001, is a free service, funded by […]
Lights on the Horizon is a literary time capsule of poetry, fiction and drama from writers across the UK and Ireland, including West Cork. Lights on the Horizoncelebratesheroes and hope during Covid-19. A collection of writing during the lockdown of 2020, reflecting a global villages’ thoughts, fears, actions and inactions […]
The West Cork Art Centre has this year created an online space to bring the Members and Friends Exhibition to the public and showcase the work of artists from across West Cork and beyond. The Members Exhibition has been running at West Cork Arts Centre for 35 years, displaying the […]
Writers residing in Munster are invited to enter the 2020 J G Farrell Fiction Award – an award is for the best opening chapter of a novel-in-progress. The prize is a place on the West Cork Literary Festival’s online Novel with Paul McVeigh workshop. This workshop was originally due to take place as […]