Even though it feels strange to be thinking about insulation in the middle of the summer, there is no better time to start planning or taking action in insulating our homes. The benefits of insulating include cheaper heating bills: On average, a home loses 20-30 per cent of its heat […]
Travel downstream along the Bandon River and a few kilometres east of Enniskeane you will pass under a beautiful freestanding six-arch rubble stone road bridge, built c.1740. It is listed by the ‘National Inventory of Architectural Heritage’ as “An expertly built bridge elegantly spanning the Bandon River. Despite its frequent […]
Pádraig Fhia Ó Mathúna (Patrick Mahony) is a researcher on the Fionn Folklore Project. He was a columnist with the West Cork People for several years. We have probably all heard the story of Fionn mac Cumhaill’s pursuit of Diarmaid and Gráinne. It is one of the most well-known episodes […]
At midsummer, the summer solstice, the countryside is bejewelled by our native wild flowers and herbs. Along the roadsides, brightening the hedgerows, flowers are everywhere – a blend of yellow, white, red, blue, green, pink and many shades in between. Today many of these plants are considered weeds but somebody […]
Anyone reading this who had a child doing Leaving Cert 2023 – send all complaints to the editor of the West Cork People for what I am about to say – I don’t believe there was anything wrong with the much-maligned maths paper 1, the hot topic on the airwaves […]
Full disclosure: the following column will be a total lovefest of West Cork. If you’re feeling contrary and want to complain about West Cork, stop reading now. It’s been warm and sunny for most of the past six weeks, and I am so bewitched by summer that I don’t remember […]