West Cork Music is delighted to announce its Spring Concert Series. Over four Sundays in February and March, St Brendan’s Church in Bantry will welcome top-class soloists and quartets. On Sunday 12 February at 3pm, violinists Paul Ezergailis and Siobhán Doyle, violists Ruth Gibson and Cian Ó Dúill, and cellists Brian O’Kane and Aoife Burke […]
An exhibition of photography by Richard Winfield, inspired by his fascination with ancient woodlands and derelict stone buildings and how they invoke the spirit of the past, takes place in Gallery Asna, Clonakilty this month. Woodlands are rich sources of folklore and tradition. From our island’s earliest times, trees have […]
With more and more individuals turning to online dating, it has become very much the norm and, although it has its challenges, with over 300 million people worldwide now using dating apps, experts are predicting that within just a few years, 50 per cent of relationships will have begun this […]
Matthew Hurley looks at the remarkable rise of Ardfield native and soccer prospect John O’Donovan. The first year Arts student in UCC is training with the Cork City senior squad in preparation for the new League of Ireland season, starting on February 17, when they play Bohemians at Turners Cross. […]
There is a lot to be said about how fate or destiny, or whatever you want to call it, can take people in many different, surprising, and life-changing directions. For instance, if Colyne Laverriere hadn’t asked her mother for one more chance to stay in Ireland, and if her search […]
The ‘Museum of Birds and Beasts’, a new exhibition by Tess Leak and Sharon Whooley, that records local stories and cures from some of West Cork’s older generation that may otherwise be lost, is now on at the LHQ gallery at Cork County Hall, Carrigrohane Road where it will run […]