This month Jez Simms, Chair of the Birdwatch Ireland West Cork Branch, talks about his love of birding. To answer the question of this article’s title, as to why you should take up this joyful and fulfilling pastime, I shall relate my life as a bird watcher and hope this […]
The world’s first transatlantic cable, which sent its first telegram 166 years ago, started in Valentia Island off the coast of Co Kerry. Now subsea cables carry 99 per cent of the world’s internet traffic. Today’s cables enable the transmission of light along fibreoptic strands within the cable, enabling an ever-increasing […]
After over a decade in Vancouver, Canada, entrepreneur and DJ Shane Breen, 41, returned to his roots in Skibbereen last year and has since set up Ár n-Áit (Our Place), a shared artisan workspace built around the concept of community, creativity, and collaboration. Inspired by Shane’s time in Vancouver where […]