As the blackberry season is upon us, it’s time to take a walk, and don’t forget the containers. The blackberry season offers us the ideal opportunity to fill our faces with this juicy fruit ,as we wander along the hedgerows. I always think that if it’s a serious picking session, […]
John Horton, warden of the Cape Clear Bird Observatory, describes how he spent much of the winter months of 2025/26 volunteering his expertise in the Karoo region of South Africa. The culmination of two years’ work, in 2018, I successfully led an ambitious project to establish the first newly-accredited bird […]
This month Andrea Reichstein, from the Save Murragh Action Group – a group dedicated to protecting the Bandon river valley – highlights the rare gem of ancient oaks found in Bandon woods. Bandon town, nestled into the beautiful Bandon River Valley has something very special right on its doorstep: probably […]
by Naomi Fein For many people, January is considered a time for change. But I’d like to call September the true moment when change starts. The Irish philosopher John O’Donohue says it best in his essay ‘Thresholds’. A threshold, he says, “is a frontier that divides two different territories, rhythms […]