INTERVIEWS

“Smile, breathe and go slowly, says Charlie Stevens, quoting the famous Vietnamese monk and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh, as he sums up his own life learnings. Charlie Stevens, 78, first sailed into West Cork in the summer of 1975 on a test run before a planned sailing trip around […]

After clocking up some 20,000 flying hours over the course of his career, today retired, well-respected Aer Lingus pilot Charlie Coughlan, 83, is content to simply be looking skyward. Charlie survived breast cancer – a very rare condition in males – just over a decade post-retirement, and has since gained […]

“One hundred years is too short,” says fisherman Pat Murphy with a smile. Just three years shy of this great age, Pat, (97), has landed too many catches to count in his lifetime. Most of those years have been shared with his greatest catch of all, the love of his […]

A new feature documentary, ‘Theocracy, the Emigrant’s Artist’, capturing the life and work of the London-based Irish artist Bernard Canavan – known globally as The Emigrant’s Artist because of his paintings of the Irish Diaspora – will premiere at this year’s Cork International Film Festival in November. Directed by renowned […]

With firsthand experience of the devastating effects of addiction, Recovery Coach addiction specialist Adrian Linehan recently took a stand with the people of Bandon against plans for a new gaming arcade in the town. The protest was a success. The director of the casino company listened to the concerns of […]