Funding of €160,000 has been secured for Bantry under the Outdoor Recreation Infrastructure Scheme. This funding is part of the Government’s Action Plan for Rural Development and provides funding for the development of new, or the maintenance, enhancement and promotion of, outdoor recreational infrastructure. Senator Tim Lombard commented: “I very […]
On November 29 2018 An Bord Pleanala ruled with two votes against one and against the advice of their own inspector, in favour of the proposed Thermoplastic Compounding Factory adjacent to the Retirement Village and Nursing Home on Baltimore Road in Skibbereen. The planning permission is sought by American RTP […]
Ger Fleming, a homeopath working out of Clonakilty, first discovered homeopathy over 14 years ago and was really amazed at how it worked on and improved her health. Now, a husband, two children and a vast array of pets later, she and her family have come to rely on homeopathic […]
Lifeboat crews from around the UK and Ireland have become ‘pin ups’ in a new calendar that supports one of the biggest photographic projects ever undertaken. The calendar features volunteer crews from all round the coast; the coxswain from Penlee; the iconic lifeboat station at Bembridge; the old and new […]
A special edition of An Saol ó Dheas broadcast on RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta this week commemorated the Whiddy Island disaster. The interviewees included Eoin Warner, a wildlife television documentary maker, who lost his father in the tragedy. Eoin, from Bantry, was only two-and-a-half when his father was died. He […]
John Cadogan Murphy, later known simply as ‘Whitehead Murphy’, was born in 1859 in Assolas near Skibbereen, where the monument now stands on the Baltimore Road. John had three brothers – Patrick, James and Jeremiah – and three sisters – Harriet, Nora and Mary Ellen. Before his 21st birthday John […]