Excuse my language but WTF have they been doing to the hedgerows? It’s Armageddon out there. Except that Armageddon is defined as the last battle between good and evil before the Day of Judgement, and if the hedgerows represent Good and the machines shredding them represent Evil – then it’s […]
Birdwatch West Cork Branch Committee member Damaris Lysaght gives an insight into the charming habits of the long-tailed tit They’ve never visited my bird table – yet! – though a few friends of mine are honoured with their presence on their feeders. It’s quite likely that the first indication that […]
A group from ‘Waste Not, Want Not’, including the Women’s Shed, Tidy Towns, Community Resource Centre and Clonakilty FET representatives visited Forge Hill Recycling Centre in Cork on Friday, February 28. The trip was both informative and eye-opening! As a group, we were curious to learn more about how waste is managed […]
Following on from last month’s article on the vacant and derelict property grants, Ruairi Kay speaks with Paul Deane about his experience with the grant in upgrading his home in Clonakilty I first met Paul in May of 2024, when I completed a home energy assessment for him under the […]
There was a piece on RTE Radio 1’s ‘Sunday Miscellany’ a few weeks ago by Hugh Wheldon, a young Irish volunteer with the environmental organisation Sea Shepherd. He was aboard the ship ‘Allankay’, in the Antarctic, and talked of icebergs and polar sunsets, Cape Horn and Drake’s Passage, orcas and […]
As we move further into spring, most farmers will have a good handle on the area they will be farming for the year ahead. Most of the new land that comes up for lease tends to appear on the market in the first quarter of the year but, in recent […]