Former Castlehaven and Cork senior football star Colin Crowley is loving life in New Jersey. The talented GAA star is the owner of Benessere Wellness Center and Spa. Covid-19 has posed a huge challenge this year from a business and health perspective, but the sports star is optimistic for the future. […]
This month starts at a hectic pace with several major astrological dynamics kicking in before the Full Moon on August 3. This rapid fire of interplanetary contacts keeps up for the whole of August. It’s easier to count the days that have nothing of note this month, Don’t expect to […]
Many festivals in West Cork, and indeed throughout Ireland, have been cancelled and, where feasible, an online offering has been made as a substitute for the real experience. An international storytelling festival has been held annually on Cape Clear during the first weekend of September since 1994. This boutique festival […]
It’s August and I don’t know whether to laugh or cry about it. It appears that our transition into a daily life in The Twilight Zone has no intention of leaving us anytime soon. Do not allow anyone to persuade you that this is the ‘New Normal’. This is most […]
In this series of articles (‘Do we understand our child?’) Diana Radeva, child and adolescent psychotherapist sets out to consider the emotional life of children from birth onwards; and how relationships between children and parents evolve over time. It is a view of human growth, which recognises the importance of […]
August or Lúghnasa is associated with games, festivals and the start of the grain harvest. August is called Lúghnasa after Lugh, the Irish sun god, and there is no herb that reminds us more of summer sun and languid days as lavender. Lavender perfume is well known and was even […]