Artist, buddhist, friend of show business, prehistory enthusiast: Keith Payne (82) wears many hats, but in later life has reached a point of realisation where, even in the face of death, religion has no part to play. Battling leukaemia for the past two years, the Schull resident, who helped set […]
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As a self-confessed lifetime hippie and pacifist, Bill Chase has always embraced love, peace and nature. The only son of Irish Catholic parents, Bill reached his teenage years on the cusp of the counterculture of 1960s America, a period defined by the Vietnam War and Civil Rights Movement. He chose […]
Situated between Bandon and Innishannon, the townland of Ballymountain North is, for the most part, made up of vast parcels of green and brown agricultural farmland. Travel the highroads and byroads for long enough however and you might just happen upon an oasis in the midst of this intensively farmed […]
With unaffordable rents and skyrocketing housing prices, the current housing crisis in Ireland is leaning heavily on Ireland’s young people, many of whom are struggling financially and have lost hope of ever getting on the property ladder. Facing such a predicament four years ago, unable to afford buying her own […]


