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First Home Scheme to help you buy your first new home

WCP Staff August, 2022

The First Home Scheme (FHS) is an affordable housing scheme, which supports people to buy new homes. The FHS is a shared equity scheme, where the State and participating banks pay up to 30% of the cost of your new home in return for a stake in the home. If […]

West Cork club keeps rowing out talent

WCP Staff August, 2022

Skibbereen Rowing Club is undoubtedly the most successful sports club to come out of the West Cork region in recent times. It is a year on since a summer which brought an Olympic Gold Medal for their very own Paul O’Donovan and Fintan McCarthy as well as a Bronze for […]

Extending your home with an outdoor seating space

WCP Staff August, 2022

Following on from my article on conservatories in the July issue, this month I’m looking at how to create the ideal outside space that may in fact extend your home. Before starting your project, consider what you want from this space. Do you want to divide in into areas for […]

Health & Lifestyle

The price we pay for love

Susan O Regan August, 2022

“And space becomes your gift, encircles everything, slows the pace, lets the light in”. I’m beginning this month’s article with the quote by Rachel Holstead that I finished last month’s article with. This line came back to me in a different context recently. I wasn’t sure if I could or […]

Food & Drinks

West Cork embraces mediterranean fare as Toonsbridge Dairy and The Real Olive Company open a new shop in Bandon

WCP Staff August, 2022

Toonsbridge Dairy and The Real Olive Company wrote a new chapter in their story with the opening of a warehouse shop in Bandon last month. What started out as The Real Olive Company in a small stall by the fountain in the English Market in 1993 has since grown into […]

Ireland is failing to meet its targets

Fiona Hayes August, 2022

The country’s climate plans outline a legally binding target of 51 per cent reduction in emissions to be reached by 2030 and reaching Net Zero by 2050 at the latest. Net Zero means cutting greenhouse gas emissions to as close to zero as possible, with any remaining emissions re-absorbed from the […]

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