GROUNDEDAn occasional column by Grace O’Sullivan – mother, ecologist, environment and peace activist, MEP. These are distressing and unsettling times and we are witnessing a new world evolving in tragic circumstances. As we continue in our national efforts at containing the spread of Covid-19, people are being asked to make […]
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A native of Clonakilty in West Cork, Julie O’Brien-Grodewald moved to New York City in February 2002, when she was 21. Like so many other emigrants she worked hard, sometimes holding down two or three jobs at a time, and eventually saved up enough to go into partnership in a […]
Cork County Council COVID-19 Community Support Programme has been established to enable the coordination of a multi-agency response in the delivery of much needed services to vulnerable citizens across County Cork. Leading Ireland’s largest county, Cork County Council, through its programme, will ensure that the wide variety of groups working across the county to assist those in need, will do so in an organized, […]
Bandon native and Emergency Department Nurse Paul Creagh is shaving off his beard of 15 years this evening to raise funds for Marymount Hospital and Bandon Day Care Centre for the elderly. “As an Emergency Department Nurse, the current situation means we need to wear protective masks, so my beard […]
The new Business Continuity Voucher is now available through Local Enterprise Offices and is open to sole traders and companies across every business sector that employ up to 50 people, the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation, Heather Humphreys TD announced on March 26. The voucher is worth up to […]
A yoga studio that started off in a little cob building (the Boab Centre) in Kealkill 20 years ago is now Europe’s leading online yoga platform. Based back in her native Netherlands since 2011, Esther Ekhart has launched a Relief Program on her online yoga platform, EkhartYoga, for people around […]