“Saving Bantry Bay shouldn’t have to come at such a high financial cost for local communities.” Bantry LEA candidate Holly McKeeve-Cairns says that communities across West Cork are paying too high a price for poor decision-making at both local and national government level. “Bantry’s Protect Our Native Kelp group needs […]
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Pictured at the launch of a special pilot scheme by Cork County Council for Bantry businesses were Sharon Corcoran Director of Economic Development & Tourism at Cork County Council, Kevin Curran, Head of Enterprise,and Deirdre O’Mahony, Senior Business Development Officer, Local Enterprise Office Cork North and West. Cork County Council […]
Clonakilty based personal injury and medical negligence specialist solicitors, McCarthy + Co. are the first law firm in Ireland to have been accredited Business All Star status. The coveted Business All Star status is an independently verified standard mark for businesses based on rigorous selection criteria; performance, trust and customer […]
Yousuf Janab Ali, Chairman of Clonakilty’s Islamic Cultural Centre of West Cork, recently travelled for the second time to his native country Bangladesh to volunteer at one of the Rohingya camps. Bangladesh is now sheltering more than a million Myanmar refugees in camps, some 700,000 of whom have poured over […]
Minke Gin from the newly-opened Clonakilty Distillery was named the Best International Botanical Gin by the American Distilling Institute, following a blind tasting by a panel of expert judges. The main botanical used to create Minke Gin is rock samphire – also known as the fennel of the sea – […]
Speaking at a ‘Doing Business in Kinsale Meeting’ at the Blue Haven Hotel last month, Minister Jim Daly proposed an ambitious plan to pedestrianise the main street (Pearse Street) of the town, and to create an outdoor space for recreational and increased footfall purposes. Mr. Daly said, “We need to […]
