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A West Cork Farm Life: John O’Driscoll

WCP Staff April, 2019

I farm with my parents, Kevin and Siobhan, at Kilmore, Drimoleague. It’s a spring calving dairy farm and we’re milking about 80 cows give or take. There are about 120 acres on the farm. Cows: It’s predominantly Friesian cows but there are a few crossbreds. We started calving in Mid […]

Health & Lifestyle

April Sun Signs

Kate Arbon April, 2019

With Mercury out of its retrograde phase and in forward motion once more we could hope for some plain sailing. The first week of April may make us feel like we can’t shake off the confusion, miscommunication or discordant connections of the last few weeks. As Mercury steps back into […]

Health & Lifestyle

Renault Kadjar has a nose for what Irish consumers want

Sean Creedon April, 2019

I knew that Renault had given their Kadjar a revamp and was told that the car was given a new nose. Now with us humans getting a new nose would be a huge change. Some people are really conscious of their noses and those who can afford it, often get some […]

Sport & Fitness

Long jump ace captures gold

WCP Staff April, 2019

Shane is still coming to terms with his first ever triumph at the prestigious national senior championships which are held on an annual basis. The modest star was delighted with his gold medal. “I was absolutely delighted. It was my first time winning a national senior title. I have won […]

Interview with Bill Shanley: Being an axe for hire

Gary Hannon April, 2019

Guitarist Bill Shanley is a Clonakilty-born session musician, songwriter, performer, and bandleader. He has performed and recorded with Sinéad O’Connor, Mary Black, Liam Clancy, Black Francis (of The Pixies), Paul Brady and Roy Harper, amongst many others. Though he left his childhood home of Shanley’s pub in Clon for Dublin […]

Just be yourself

Louise O'Dwyer April, 2019

Life is precious and living in this busy world we sometimes forget to ‘stop’ and take a breath and relish simply in our existence. Rushing and running everywhere, frantically moving onto the next ‘thing’ that we ‘must’ do seems to be what LIVING is now reduced to. According to some […]

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