There are alien animals living wild all over the world – hippopotamuses in Colombia, camels in Australia, stoats in New Zealand, Burmese pythons in Florida. There are parakeets in England, slow worms in the Burren and wallabies in the Irish Sea. And now we have hornets in Cork. There are […]
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Sixteen-year-old Noah Cunnane is a dedicated member of Muskerry Athletics Club, an organisation that is going from strength to strength, marking an impressive start to 2025 with a standout performance at the opening Cross Country meet in Riverstick in September last. Competing against strong opposition from Bandon, Skibbereen, Courseys, Dohneys, […]
Moze Jacobs chats to Seamus Poillot who runs Qualiphaunt, an initiative offering inexperienced players or musicians the opportunity to perform on stage at the renowned DeBarras Folk Club in Clonakilty There is something about DeBarra’s Folk Club in West Cork that stirs up echoes of a glorious rock music past. […]
The communities of the Maughanaclea Hills – including the rural lands of Kealkill, Coomclogh, Cousane and the Mealagh Valley and their neighbours in Gortloughra – have come together to launch a ‘Stop the Spin’ campaign in opposition to a proposed industrial scale wind farm by wind energy giant Enerco, with […]
The latest World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) Report forecasts that there is a 70 per cent chance the average temperature over the entire 2025-2029 period will be more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. That means we will have to work extremely hard to meet the Paris accord and this requires […]