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Gold at the The Lost Valley Dairy

Jean Perry January, 2022

Another January and another opportunity for resolutions. Recently I listened to a podcast interview with Patrick Holden of The Sustainable Food Trust talking to Andy Cato, an inspiring regenerative farmer. The subject was climate change and how our food choices could help in redressing the situation. It was suggested that […]

It’s never been more important to think global whilst acting local

Fiona Hayes January, 2022

‘New Year’s Eve 2021 – provisionally the warmest on record’ claimed the UK Guardian newspaper. Whilst MET Éireann didn’t agree; or at least not for Ireland, nevertheless it reported that, during 2021 at least ten weather stations across Ireland reached heatwave conditions where temperatures of at least 25 degrees Celsius […]

‘Following the rooks’ in West Cork

WCP Staff January, 2022

by Nicholas Mitchell ‘The rook and jackdaw are too well known to need any introduction in themselves, as one need not go far from the centre of the city before seeing one or both species. On the principle that familiarity breeds contempt, it is perhaps their very abundance which accounts […]

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Getting stuck in

Tommy Moyles January, 2022

Farm life is relatively straightforward at the moment. The cows are getting a combination of hay, silage or straw over a week. It sounds more complicated than it actually is. They get a bale of silage in front of them, which usually lasts a pen four to five days and […]

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Bandon Students at this year’s BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition urge Irish farmers to change farm practices and reduce their carbon footprint

Tommy Moyles January, 2022

Two students from St Brogan’s College, Bandon, tell Tommy Moyles that Irish farmers don’t know enough about producing low emissions beef but they are open to learning. Sarah Teape and Alison Darcy have carried out extensive research into the attitudes of farmers towards climate action and their knowledge of low-emission […]

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Dracula is actually Irish

WCP Staff January, 2022

“One house would be attacked and the next spared, there was no telling who would go next and when someone said goodbye to a friend, he said it as if forever. In a few days the town became like a city of the dead. The great county infirmary hospital was […]

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