Animals often have misleading names: a white rhinoceros isn’t white, a black kite isn’t black. The common gull isn’t particularly common and the bald eagle certainly isn’t bald. A bream can be either a freshwater fish in the carp family or a member of two different families of sea fish; […]
For the last 17 years that she has worked in West Cork Jackie Gowran has witnessed a quiet revolution taking place. Female entrepreneurs are sowing the seeds of their business dreams and nurturing them to fruition. Here she explores some of the art of cultivating a sustainable business that is aligned […]
Cork County Council’s Local Enterprise Office North and West is delighted to welcome the return of the Southwest’s National Women’s Enterprise Day Regional Event to Cork for 2023. Taking place on Thursday, October 19, at the Dunmore House Hotel in Clonakilty, National Women’s Enterprise Day is Ireland’s largest female enterprise […]
It’s been a disheartening backend! I thought we might get a run of settled dry weather in September given how wet things were in July and August but it wasn’t to be with Storm Agnes adding yet more wind and rain to deal with. Dock leaves in the field closest […]
As part of the celebrations to commemorate the centenary of Drinagh co-op, Phillip O’Regan has written a book ‘100 Years of Drinagh Co-operative Creamery Limited’. Expected to be published at the end of October 2023, Tommy Moyles says it is the remarkable story of how a small community, in what […]
The feast of St. Michael the Archangel falls on September 29. In the old Irish tradition, Michaelmas was known as ‘Fómhar na nGéanna’ – the goose harvest. Geese, hatched out in spring, were left outside all through the summer in what can only be called truly free range and organic! […]