INTERVIEWS

With much of the world experiencing rapid and extensive urbanisation over the past few decades, authorities have been confronted with various problems, not least the significant pressure that urban sprawl is putting on green spaces like community gardens and allotments. Ireland’s ongoing housing crisis has resulted in new developments increasingly […]

Later this Spring, American archaeologist, anthropologist and chef Dr Bill Schindler will  teach an online course at University College Cork focused on food heritage and  sustainable enterprise. A leading voice in reconnecting modern eating with ancient food  traditions, during the pilot programme, Dr Schindler will introduce food cultures from many  […]

“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 […]