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Connecting through sound

WCP Staff March, 2020

From her home overlooking Long Strand near Clonakilty in West Cork, Claire Marie Barton gives sound healing sessions and offers private retreats. She shares some of the special qualities of sound healing and explains what drew her to this experiential healing therapy. Singing has always been Claire’s passion and, although she veered […]

Kathleen Kelley Reardon – A life less ordinary

Mary O'Brien March, 2020

Kathleen Kelley Reardon has just published her second crime mystery novel, ‘Damned If She Does’; described by Kirkus Reviews as “informed and searing” and a “page-turning success”. The first book in the trilogy, ‘Shadow Campus’, made the top of Amazon’s Top New Releases and was described by Forbes as a […]

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Holly Cairns : Life as Cork’s only female TD

WCP Staff March, 2020

Farmer and TD Holly Cairns grew up on a farm on the Turk Head peninsula in Lisheen, West Cork. The newly elected Social Democrats TD, who describes herself as a feminist farmer, is looking forward to getting her teeth into the job and being the best TD she can be […]

Getting the recipe right at Organico

WCP Staff March, 2020

A celebration of all that’s good and in season in fresh organic produce, local where possible – the food at Organico Café in Bantry is renowned for being wholesome, healthy, and full of flavour. Sisters Rachel and Hannah Dare have now added something new with the introduction of a more […]

O’Connor’s Bantry – Open again for business

WCP Staff March, 2020

O’Connor’s Bantry – grand opening on Friday, March 6. Why Bantry? Shane Spillane knows why. “The welcome we have received has been amazing. I’ve had over 50 locals ringing me to wish me well. That’s special. There’s a real good atmosphere down here.” He was last in Kerry running a […]

Fish cooked in a coconut sauce

Karen Austin March, 2020

Baracoa, in Guantanamo province, is the oldest and most remote town in Cuba. At the very easterly tip of the country it’s the most Irish of Cuban towns. Add on twenty degrees and you could be home. The weather changes constantly, clouds rolling in dumping rain, the wind from the […]

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