Cork senior football star Melissa Duggan recently had the proud honour of receiving All-Star and Munster Ladies Football of the Year awards following a plethora of outstanding displays for the senior inter-county team and her beloved club team the Dohenys. The West Cork football heroine also captained the Munster senior […]
World and European kickboxing champion Tony Stephenson runs the West Cork Kickboxing Club with club founder Ian Kingston, a former Irish national kickboxing coach. This is a busy time of year for the kickboxing club, with lots of new members joining classes in towns all over West Cork. Tony takes […]
Everyone loves a rose says Deborah Ballard of Future Forests and the trick for growing them at their best is to pick the right place for the right rose for you. Rambler Roses have long, flexible stems, and tend to flower in one awe-inspiring flush at midsummer, although some, like […]
CCAC’s first exhibition of the year is a student show, drawing on work from Clonakilty School of Painting, as well as classes by Pauline Walsh and Lesley Cox. As the exhibition title suggests, many of the exhibitors have never shown work before, whilst others are showing work in a medium […]
Let’s face it: January tends to be most people’s pet hate! The days are dark and gloomy and the nights are cold and wet. Some say they are broke, some are consumed with guilt after ‘doing the dog’ on their healthy diet over the holidays and the ‘dreaded flu’ is […]
Most Irish people don’t have any fond memories of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Maggie will always be remembered for her ‘Out, Out, Out’ remarks 36 years ago when, after an Anglo-Irish summit, she reiterated that Northern Ireland was part of the UK. However, Mrs Thatcher did us all […]