The move from primary to secondary school is one of the most significant transitions in a child’s educational journey. It marks a time of change, challenge, and growth – not just for the child, but for their parents too. With new environments, heightened expectations, and unfamiliar routines, it’s no wonder […]
The communities of the Maughanaclea Hills – including the rural lands of Kealkill, Coomclogh, Cousane and the Mealagh Valley and their neighbours in Gortloughra – have come together to launch a ‘Stop the Spin’ campaign in opposition to a proposed industrial scale wind farm by wind energy giant Enerco, with […]
This month, Niamh O’Leary, part of the Save Murragh Action Group committed to protecting the Bandon River Valley, discusses the relevance of Shifting Baseline Syndrome, where people’s perception of what is ‘normal’ for the environment gradually changes over time, often due to a lack of awareness or memory of past […]
The American zoologist Roger Payne died in June this year. He was the first person to study the sounds made by humpback whales. In 1967, in Bermuda, he met an engineer working for the US navy using underwater microphones to listen for Russian submarines; sometimes other, very peculiar noises were […]
The latest World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) Report forecasts that there is a 70 per cent chance the average temperature over the entire 2025-2029 period will be more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. That means we will have to work extremely hard to meet the Paris accord and this requires […]
