It’s very cheering amidst the autumn rain to be picking sweetcorn. Luckily we had sunshine, which was very timely as far the corn was concerned, a last little push in the ripening process and now we have an entire crop to consume. Crop being a rather grandiose term for our […]
How we shop is in some ways connected to how we live. Do we spend our money to benefit far-off places? Or do we spend it so that it circulates in our own community? West Cork People visits Collins Centra in Drimoleague to see how a shop plays a vital […]
Much has been written over the past number of weeks in relation to the possibility of Ireland facing one of the coldest winters on record, with crippling blizzards predicted to inflict an icy misery across the country for much of an extended winter season. Such apocalyptic predictions it must be […]
by Fiona Hayes Many of you will have heard by now that American owned RTP Company who are registered as Daly Products in Ireland have, after a two-year battle with Save Our Skibbereen (SOS), withdrawn their application for planning to build a polymer compounding factory on the Baltimore Road in […]
Farming has changed and will keep changing: Consumer, market and social trends all play a part. All you need do is ask any of the older generation in West Cork and they will tell you how the countryside has evolved. In the 1950s and 60s and there would have been […]
History teaches us the Conservative Party better watch out says Kieran Doyle I finally got Dr Martin O’Donoghue’s lecture on the 1918 general election, up on www.westcorkfm.ie I’ve mentioned him a little while back as one of the keynote speakers of the inaugural ‘History Scoops’ talks in De Barras. Since […]