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Small changes can effect big change

WCP Staff January, 2023

Most of you is great – it’s what your friends and family love. However, for many people there is a small change that would make a big difference in their lives shares Tom O’Herlihy, Leisure Club Manager at the Clonakilty Park Hotel. And small changes have surprisingly big effects. The […]

Baltimore pool jumps into 2023 with a splash

WCP Staff January, 2023

It was an eventful and challenging 2022 for the Wild Atlantic Pool and it ended not with a bang but with a chilly squeak. However, they are a determined and resourceful crew at the Centre and this vital local resource is back up and running again. 2022 brought financial worries […]

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Supporting your immune system to fight off illness

WCP Staff January, 2023

A new year is a time for optimism and new beginnings. A difficult couple of years may have left some feeling a little weary and vulnerable to illness. Cranial and Structural Osteopath Christopher Minhall reminds us of the power of our own immune system and healing ability. He also shares […]

‘The Tao Of Pooh’ and disease

WCP Staff January, 2023

Over the Christmas period I have been reading a great book called ‘The Tao of Pooh’, which attempts to explain the principles of Taoism through the characters of The Winnie the Pooh books. This may seem like a strange start to an article about health, but one line, a quote […]

Herbal Healing

Planting herbs for health

Dr Rosari Kingston January, 2023

This is a good month to decide if you want to have herbs growing in your garden as the seed catalogues and gardening advertisements whet our interest. So many of the ones used therapeutically may be obtained from the wild but some, such as marshmallow, elecampane and lovage need to […]

Health & Lifestyle

Noble ancestry and the Nobel Prize

WCP Staff January, 2023

Swedish geneticist Svante Pääbo was awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize for medicine. He pioneered the use of ancient DNA to unlock secrets about human evolution, especially from Neanderthal bones. We can now compare Neanderthal genomes with the records of humans living today; the new scientific discipline of paleogenomics. It is […]

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