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Colder than average winters in a warming world – the paradox of climate change in Ireland

WCP Staff October, 2019

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 […]

Power to the people

Fiona Hayes October, 2019

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Company who are registered as Daly Products in Ireland have, after a two-year battle with Save Our Skibbereen (SOS), withdrawn their application for planning to build a polymer compounding factory on the Baltimore Road in […]

A changing landscape

Tommy Moyles October, 2019

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 & Folklore

Will Brexit destroy the Conservative Party?

Kieran Doyle October, 2019

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 […]

Columnists

The fastest knife in the West End

Shane Daly October, 2019

“If everything seems under control, you’re not going fast enough.” – Mario Andretti I had an operation three weeks ago that was minor but intrusive. The operation was performed under general anaesthetic. I was given a gown to put on, asked to lie down on the operating table and a […]

Health & Lifestyle

Are you ready?

Tina Pisco October, 2019

There’s no denying that we are well into Autumn. The landscape is rapidly shedding its summer greens and moving into the russets and browns of the season, the evening stretch is no longer, and the desire to light the fire and curl up on the sofa grows stronger every day; […]

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