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Finding our place in Ár n-Áit

Mary O'Brien February, 2025

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 […]

Health & Lifestyle

Future-proofing after the storm

Tina Pisco February, 2025

Last week Storm Eowyn caused massive destruction as it raced across the country. We braced ourselves and prepared for the worse. Memories of hurricane Ophelia, which devastated our trees and ripped the roof off the shed, made it difficult to sleep as the wind howled around the house. It was […]

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From Shakespeare to self-sufficiency

Mary O'Brien February, 2025

If all the world is a stage then actress Fiona York has played many parts. Today the 87-year-old version of herself, living on her own in a pretty little terraced house with a long and narrow garden at the back in Union Hall, is content. While she has been struggling […]

Health & Lifestyle

Stress in dogs

WCP Staff February, 2025

It’s a known fact that the greatest stress felt by dogs is living with us. Yes, it seems hard to believe but not when you delve into what causes stress. Inconsistencies: Dogs see the world in black and white. I don’t mean that they are colour blind but that life […]

The decline of the Irish language

Eugene Daly February, 2025

Eugene Daly looks at the factors that instigated the diminishment of our native tongue in Ireland. The mortal wounds of Gaelic Ireland were inflicted at the battle of Kinsale in 1601, but the death agony was prolonged for all of the seventeenth century and into the eighteenth and nineteenth in […]

Living legacy

WCP Staff January, 2025

“The greatest gift is a portion of thyself” Ralph Waldo Emerson At this time of year when hearing the word resolution can feel overwhelming, I hope you’ll forgive me for bringing up legacy, another word with mighty connotations it seems. Often bringing to mind visions of lofty accomplishments, philanthropic gifts, […]

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