If “Boldness be my friend” then Swedish native and blow-in to West Cork, Katarina Runske, 60, will surely never be lonely. One of West Cork’s most enduring entrepreneurs, who moved to Durrus from Stockholm as a young, single mother in 1989, Katarina has certainly never been shy of taking a […]
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A Benedictine monk from a centuries-old monastery in Switzerland, Brother Martin Hieronymi recently traded the foothills of the Alps for the foothills of Mount Gabriel in Schull, where he travelled to improve his English at the Atlantic School of English and Active Leisure. Settling easily into village life, during his […]
Eighty-year-old Robert Deane, a former marathon runner, who has recently rekindled his passion for the sport that once played a central role in his life, chats to Niamh Coughlan about growing up in Dunmanway, lacing up his shoes once again and logging miles, smashing personal bests, and hiking up mountains. […]