Ireland’s first Charity led Air Ambulance has delivered in excess of 100 missions within its first two months of service – and has launched a major fundraising appeal for corporate and public support. The new Air Ambulance is ahead of target to deliver a forecast 500 life-saving missions per annum. […]
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Lord David Puttnam launched 20 short films on the Great Famine at Skibbereen Heritage Centre recently as part of the Famine Story exhibition. The new films focus particularly on how the Great Hunger impacted the people of West Cork and feature personal accounts on evictions, emigration, relief works and deaths. […]
We’ve all heard the reports or experienced firsthand the pressure that our A&E departments are under and Cork University Hospital’s Emergency Department (CUH ED) is one of the busiest in the country. Dr Jeff Featherstone, West Cork GP and A&E doctor says things aren’t getting any better or easier for […]
Do you know what a FoodProud School is? Well the students of Gurraneasig National School in Kilbrittain do because they coined the phrase! While little free libraries have been popping up all over the country, the little West Cork School has taken the idea a step further with their novel […]
Road to Kinsale is a Community Sponsorship project, initiated by a Kinsale-based group linked in their desire to offer a helping hand to those displaced in one of the world’s largest humanitarian crises of our time. In witnessing the atrocities of the Syrian Civil War, and the resulting 11 million […]
The Ellen Hutchins Festival is back in Bantry and the surrounding area this month during Heritage Week (August 17-25) with an increased range of activities, many of which are free. Participation and learning are key features of the festival and plants are at the centre of most of the events. […]
