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“Saving Bantry Bay shouldn’t have to come at such a high financial cost for local communities.”  Bantry LEA candidate Holly McKeeve-Cairns says that communities across West Cork are paying too high a price for poor decision-making at both local and national government level.   “Bantry’s Protect Our Native Kelp group needs […]

Clonakilty based personal injury and medical negligence specialist solicitors, McCarthy + Co. are the first law firm in Ireland to have been accredited Business All Star status.  The coveted Business All Star status is an independently verified standard mark for businesses based on rigorous selection criteria; performance, trust and customer […]

Yousuf Janab Ali, Chairman of Clonakilty’s Islamic Cultural Centre of West Cork, recently travelled for the second time to his native country Bangladesh to volunteer at one of the Rohingya camps.  Bangladesh is now sheltering more than a million Myanmar refugees in camps, some 700,000 of whom have poured over […]

Speaking at a ‘Doing Business in Kinsale Meeting’ at the Blue Haven Hotel last month, Minister Jim Daly proposed an ambitious plan to pedestrianise the main street (Pearse Street) of the town, and to create an outdoor space for recreational and increased footfall purposes.  Mr. Daly said, “We need to […]

The Camino Santiago, or way of Saint James, is one of the most famous pilgrimage walks in the world. Its history is steeped in a tradition of over a thousand years when pilgrims first began to visit the final resting place of the apostle James.  In the 17th century pilgrims […]

Pictured are David Giles from Bandon and Kayla Canning from Derry who were the two outstanding youth volunteers that have been named winners of the 2019 Pramerica Spirit of Community Awards.    Photo Chris Bellew / Fennells  An outstanding youth volunteer from West Cork has been named winner of the […]