In the second part of his article on the efficiency of design, Ruairi Kay focuses in on the gold standard for low energy building, Passivhaus. Passivhaus, or Passive House in English is a standard for low energy building that originated in Germany but is now recognised worldwide. The standard rewards […]

Now summer is nearly here, those of us whose powers of observation haven’t been extinguished by technology will notice many more insects around. For most people, unfortunately, insects are nasty creepy-crawlies that sting, bite or buzz, and must therefore be swatted. But insects, as well as being the most numerous […]

This month the ‘Save Murragh Action Group’, a community group opposed to a sand and gravel quarry planned adjacent to the Bandon River, in Murragh, Enniskeane, looks at its local archaeology. It is interesting to consider who might have been the first peoples to inhabit this area and avail of […]

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 […]

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