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Empowering healing through matwork Pilates

WCP Staff January, 2023

It is essential that we move, essential to our strength and wellbeing, both mentally and physically. And often it is only when our capacity to move is somehow hampered, or we are limited through injury or acquired weaknesses that we really appreciate just how much we love to move. Movement […]

50 new habits for a greener planet

WCP Staff January, 2023

January wouldn’t be complete without new year resolutions. This year, mine are focused on continuing things I’ve already started: to improve my rather poor knitting skills by hopefully not stopping at the next hurdle, to keep up with my weekly swim in the sea, and to get back to drawing […]

West Cork’s dawn to dusk bird race restarts

WCP Staff January, 2023

After a break of three years, the West Cork Branch of Birdwatch Ireland will once again hold its annual dawn to dusk bird race on Sunday, January 29. Teams of four will spend the day driving around an area of West Cork trying to record as many bird species as […]

Slow fashion, sewing machines and Sally gardens

WCP Staff January, 2023

Once upon a time the words sustainability and slow fashion were not in use at all. It was just how clothes were made. Sonia Caldwell reflects on what we lost even though this time was not so long ago and how we can reclaim some of these skills. As someone […]

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Beloved Baltimore RNLI Coxswain marks well-earned retirement

WCP Staff January, 2023

The retirement of Kieran Cotter, the former Coxswain at Baltimore RNLI, was marked recently with a party held in Jacobs Bar, in the village. While Kieran officially retired at the end of 2020, the station was not able to properly mark the occasion during the pandemic and decided to wait […]

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Hunger strike: A powerful but precarious weapon

Shane Daly January, 2023

Hunger strikes are synonymous with Irish history. Some of our most famous men and women have taken part or died during a hunger strike. A hunger strike is used when all other avenues of communication have broken down. It is generally a last resort undertaken in order to bring attention […]

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