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Will 2021 be better for the Environment?

Fiona Hayes January, 2021

As 2021 starts in pandemic-induced lockdown we could all be forgiven for being dismayed about progress in environmental and climate change issues. In the first seven months of 2020, more than 13,000sq km (5,019sq miles) of the Brazilian Amazon was burned; we saw wildfires raging through Australia and the West Coast of the […]

A strange new year

Grace O'Sullivan January, 2021

I’ve been attempting the usual resolution-making and contemplation of the past 12 months, as I like to do in the early days of any new year. It has been challenging. The past 12 months have certainly been a rollercoaster, with who-knows-what ahead of us for the next 12 months. As […]

Environment

Barn owls in County Cork

WCP Staff January, 2021

Dave Rees, Chairman of BirdWatch Ireland West Cork Branch, on the beauty of barn owls, which sadly have become an increasingly rare sight, although there are encouraging signs that the numbers of Barn Owls are beginning to pick up again. There is something about seeing a Barn Owl that brings […]

Dunmanway’s soccer maverick

Paul Lordan January, 2021

The vast majority of renowned historians and casual observers will rightly contend that the year 1922 was an eventful one. The assassination of Michael Collins in Béal na Bláth was the latest in a series of high profile but historically important incidents to take place in the West Cork area […]

The colours and terminology of the rainbow

BRÓD January, 2021

The rainbow flag is a symbol used by – and associated with – the LGBTQI+ community. Lisa Brinkman explains how the different colours of the rainbow represent the many different sexual and gender identities and orientations that exist outside of the heterosexual and cisgendered norm. In the early to mid […]

Health & Lifestyle

Five tips to beat the pandemic blues

WCP Staff January, 2021

Claire Marie Barton, a sound-healer, musician and author living and working in West Cork, shares five things that can help increase our sense of well-being during lockdown. The media is full of Covid and, with the rising numbers; it’s easy to feel overwhelmed and fearful. Being in this state over […]

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