Launched by three friends from Dublin, The Netherlands and Italy, The Quarantine Quiz is an online pub quiz, which aims to bring some fun into quarantine during the Covid-19 pandemic. What started out as a way to enjoy a Saturday night with some friends who can’t visit their favourite pubs […]
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Clonakilty native Julie O’Brien, who owns a bar in midtown Manhattan, The Junction NYC, continues writing in a series of letters from New York, where there are glimmers of hope that social distancing is working even as Coronavirus deaths still climb. Julie is married to Stevie and they have a […]
A new four-part podcast series showing inside the Arts for Health programme has just been released. Arts for Health is a partnership programme based in West Cork, which integrates the arts programmes into the culture and practice of healthcare settings for older people. It takes place in five community hospitals […]
With strict restrictions now in place in maternity hospitals nationwide, new mothers are becoming increasing worried about the prospect of giving birth without the birth plan and the support team they would have wanted. “The situation is changing rapidly and mothers are contacting me in a frenzy, worried they will […]
Cork County Council’s Library Service has begun delivering books directly to the doorsteps of some of it’s vulnerable members who are isolating during Covid-19. From Kilworth to Kilcrohane and everywhere in between, those who ordinarily enjoy regular visits to their local library can still count on having something new to […]
Irish Water is working at this time, with our local authority partners, contractors and others to safeguard the health and well-being of staff and the public and to ensure the continuity of drinking water and wastewater services. Great care must always be taken to protect drinking water supplies wherever pesticide […]