We’ve all heard that statement many times. But, did you realise it applies to your dog too? Whenever I make a home visit to a client, one of my first questions will be: what type of food do you feed your dog? Diet can have a major bearing on every […]
A young student recently asked me how to ‘make blue’. Of course, being a primary colour one cannot ‘make blue’ out of other colours; just as one cannot make yellow or red. In saying this, blue is not simply blue, and in art all the different varieties of blue ‘are’ made. […]
Following the critical success of his first solo exhibition in Ireland earlier this year, O’Connell Gallery is delighted to be showing selected highlights from the Quercu collection in Clonakilty. ‘Quercu’ – the oak – brings together a new body of work by Alan Meredith. The exhibition draws together separate, but […]
The 2024/25 Premier League season kicked off last month, bringing renewed excitement after the summer break. Bandon’s own Conor Hourihane made headlines with a fresh start, returning to his former club, Barnsley, on a multi-year deal in June. The Irish midfielder, who previously captained the Reds to promotion in 2016, […]
In this article, I won’t be talking about home energy upgrade solutions. Instead, I would like to relate our family’s experience with switching to an electrical car a year ago. According to statistics published by the SEAI this week, private cars represent 17 per cent of the overall energy consumption […]
West Cork inventor Tim Rowe’s battery and pedal-powered vehicle ‘The Mott’ – a mix between a bicycle and a car – has just received CE marking, which means it can now be sold here and across Europe. The three-wheeler brightly-painted wooden electric vehicle, which is styled on a 1940’s open-top […]