Following on from last month’s article on the vacant and derelict property grants, Ruairi Kay speaks with Paul Deane about his experience with the grant in upgrading his home in Clonakilty I first met Paul in May of 2024, when I completed a home energy assessment for him under the […]
There was a piece on RTE Radio 1’s ‘Sunday Miscellany’ a few weeks ago by Hugh Wheldon, a young Irish volunteer with the environmental organisation Sea Shepherd. He was aboard the ship ‘Allankay’, in the Antarctic, and talked of icebergs and polar sunsets, Cape Horn and Drake’s Passage, orcas and […]
As we move further into spring, most farmers will have a good handle on the area they will be farming for the year ahead. Most of the new land that comes up for lease tends to appear on the market in the first quarter of the year but, in recent […]
After Trump won the USA presidential election, I promised myself that I wasn’t going to allow my 2025 articles become dominated by his political journey. However, he unleashes so much global negativity on a daily basis, that’s its difficult to navigate from the political chaos he is causing internally and […]
Arriving in Ireland almost two years ago with just a few suitcases and some precious family photographs between them, Ukrainian couple Galyna, 56, and Vlad, 38, faced the challenge of finding their feet together in a strange environment. Back home in Ukraine before the war, Vlad, who was exempted from […]
With an accordion for every day of the week, plus one to spare, Ashley Wholihan is rarely seen without one of his prized instruments to hand. Just shy of his ninetieth year, with one foot in Glengarriff and the other in Kenya, and still regularly driving to sessions around West […]