Donna McCarthy and Paul O’Driscoll exchanged their own wedding vows within the 13th century walls of Baltimore’s Dún na Séad castle a week before the pandemic in March 2020 and have since started welcoming other brides and grooms to this medieval venue they are fortunate to call home. Interestingly, once […]
Have you ever been at a wedding where you saw a table in convulsions laughing and wondered “What’s going on there?” From getting ready to the ‘craic’ at a table, takeNplace Weddings is a West Cork-based photo service that enables guests to share their candid moments with the wedding couple […]
Fifty years ago Oxford economist E. F. Schumacher wrote ‘Small Is Beautiful – A Study of Economics As If People Mattered’, challenging the state of excessive consumption in Western society; and challenging economic globalisation, with warnings related to the inevitable human cost. His premise was that economies should revolve around the […]
This month West Cork Branch Committee Member Jez Simms shares his experiences of a pelagic boat trip on August 13, organised by the Branch. Pelagic means living or occurring in the open sea. It was a glorious Sunday morning when members of Birdwatch Ireland set out on the Branch’s annual […]
Growing up in France in the nineties, I always looked forward to grape harvest towards the end of the summer. Grapes were not cultivated in the northern region of France where I come from, but they were easily one of the cheapest fruits available in the shops that time of […]
After a build-up that dominated the airwaves at the time, a figure for the cut in emissions in Agriculture was set at 25 per cent in late July. I’m glad a decision was reached and the debate – that at its extreme turned extremely toxic on social media channels – […]