One of Ireland’s best small music festivals, The Baltimore Fiddle Fair (May 9–12, 2019), has built a loyal following of music fans from all over the world who return to the beautiful seaside village year after year. They do so to sample the unique delights of this remarkable little festival […]
Ireland’s first perimenopause coach, Catherine O’Keeffe is on a mission to change the attitude towards the menopause in Ireland, something that many women find difficult to talk about. West Cork People finds out more. Also known as the Wellness Warrior, Catherine, 48, previously worked in investment banking before going back […]
Clonakilty based personal injury and medical negligence specialist solicitors, McCarthy + Co. are the first law firm in Ireland to have been accredited Business All Star status. The coveted Business All Star status is an independently verified standard mark for businesses based on rigorous selection criteria; performance, trust and customer […]
Photo above : Bantry Credit Union directors, management and staff as well as farmers, representatives of farming organisations, Teagasc advisors and politicians from the Bantry area who travelled to Killarney for the launch of Cultivate. (Photo: Valerie O’Sullivan) Early milking was the order of the day on Wednesday March 20, […]
In 1972, British paratroopers stationed in Northern Ireland, opened fired on the Civil Rights marchers, murdering 14 civilians. Images of carnage that occurred that day in Derry on January 30, ‘72, were flashed around world, highlighting the apartheid system that existed in the north. Not only that, it was a […]
Yousuf Janab Ali, Chairman of Clonakilty’s Islamic Cultural Centre of West Cork, recently travelled for the second time to his native country Bangladesh to volunteer at one of the Rohingya camps. Bangladesh is now sheltering more than a million Myanmar refugees in camps, some 700,000 of whom have poured over […]