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Walking from Malin to Mizen for a worthy cause

May 10, 2013 By Editor Leave a Comment

Killian Skorka, Oliver Lotscher, Kieran King and Nick Peacock on the summit of Mt Kilimanjaro

This July a group of four friends from across the country are taking on a challenge like no other.

Over a 20 day period they plan on walking from Ireland’s most northerly point, Malin Head (Donegal) to Ireland’s most southerly point, Mizen Head (Cork).

This walk is in memory of two late friends of there’s, the late well renowned Irish mountaineer Ian McKeever and their late friend William Winder both of whom they climbed Mt Kilimanjaro with in 2011.

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Filed Under: Blogs, Features, Mizen Notes Tagged With: Malin to Mizen, walk, William Winder Rainbow Foundation

Working for a just world from Goleen

May 9, 2013 By Features Leave a Comment

Roger Morton

Una Deasy of Trocaire talks to Roger Morton from Goleen about his volunteer work with the charity.

UD: There are many charities in Ireland doing good work – why do you volunteer for Trocaire?

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Filed Under: Blogs, Features, Mizen Notes Tagged With: Goleen, Roger Morton, Trocaire, volunteer, West Cork

MS Ireland calls on young people with Multiple Sclerosis in West Cork to gathering for life skills

April 25, 2013 By Features Leave a Comment

MS Ireland, the services, research and information society for people with multiple sclerosis, is extending an open invitation to the young people with MS Gathering 2013.

On Saturday May 11th, the society will bring young people with MS together from across the country, for “Believe and Achieve – Life skills for Young People with MS”.

The event aims to highlight education opportunities, employment rights, goal-setting and strategies for living with MS.

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Filed Under: Blogs, Features, Health Tagged With: Gathering, life skills, MS Ireland, Multiple Sclerosis, West Cork, young people

West Cork Profile – Deirdre Goggin

April 22, 2013 By Features Leave a Comment

THE sport of road trotting to the outsider may seem like a male dominated sport like many other equine events but 26-year-old Deirdre Goggin has dispelled that myth and to those of us who follow this unique sport see this popular Goleen native as one of the best riders on the circuit.

This year she enjoyed her best season to date amassing a total of 16 winners from a total on nine meetings and only lost out in the jockies championship by a single win.

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Filed Under: Blogs, Features, Mizen Tagged With: Deidre Goggin, horse racing, Profile, racing, road trotting, West Cork

Kids in Need Ireland – supporting the children of Ireland

April 12, 2013 By Features Leave a Comment

Kids in Need Ireland is a new charity whereby 100% of the funds raised go to help children in Ireland who need specialist treatment abroad such as Lily Mae or Leah Taaffe.

At Kids in Need Ireland, we are in constant contact with the parents of these children and they still need so much more money for their children’s treatments.

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Can you identify this mystery West Cork baby?

April 9, 2013 By Features 1 Comment

Reader Rae Mackenzie who lives in the Outer Hebrides in Scotland sent in this fascinating photo which seems to have been taken in Baltimore in 1907.

“It was found in an antique shop in London by a collector who has moved up to the Hebrides,” said Rae.

“He passed it to my cousin who displays old articles in his tweed shop and I saw it there and thought I would try to trace it’s origins as a matter of interest.

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Filed Under: Blogs, Features, Skibbereen Tagged With: baby, Baltimore, Mystery, photo, Thomas William Boyer Brand, West Cork

Casement Ship on the crest of another wave

March 25, 2013 By Features Leave a Comment

LtoR- John Schmitz – Fred Schmitz – George AleXander Clayton with the raised anchor

THIS coming Easter, Casement ship author George AleXander Clayton will be back on the airwaves.

Interviewed alongside other experts such as Dr Angus Mitchell of the University of Limerick, Sean Seosamh O’Conchubhair and the Kerry historian T Ryle Dwyer, he will be featured discussing his extensive research on the adventures of Irish patriot Sir Roger Casement.

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Filed Under: Blogs, Features Tagged With: George AleXander Clayton, Kerry, Roger Casement, salvage, The AUD

Trocaire working to fight poverty in India

March 25, 2013 By Features Leave a Comment

Fr Michael with Ambika and her family who features on this year’s Trocaire Lenten collection box.

Fr Michael Moynihan, Parish Priest of Glengarriff, Trocaire’s Diocesan representative for the Diocese of Kerry, recently travelled to India to see how support from the South West of Ireland is helping people to overcome poverty and stand up for their rights.

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Filed Under: Beara, Blogs, Features Tagged With: Fr Michael Moynihan, Glengarriff, India, Lentan Campaign, poverty, Trocaire, West Cork

Bandon in swinging mood with the Cotton Club and All That Jazz

March 19, 2013 By Features Leave a Comment

A handful of jazz lovers in Bandon who were tired of having to commute to Cork for live events have come together and created The Cotton Club, a jazz and blues club with monthly gigs in Bandon town.

One year ago, Roos Demol, a Flemish lady who lives in Kilbrittain, came up with the idea to create a jazz club in Bandon, after organising a charity concert, featuring the jazz vocalist Laoise O’Hanlon from Cork.

“I just thought that I was probably not the only one living in or around Bandon, who craved the live jazz music that I was used to going to when I was younger. CDs are ok, but nothing compares to a live jazz gig,” said Roos.

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Filed Under: Bandon, Blogs, Features Tagged With: Bandon, Cotton Club, jazz, West Cork

West Cork author’s new novel puts Schull on the literary map

March 11, 2013 By Features Leave a Comment

Mary Malone

BEING summoned to the reading of his aunt’s will, Kieran Dulhooly is shocked to discover he’s the sole beneficiary, inheriting her valuable West Cork home as well as a substantial amount of savings.

But his windfall comes with a clause: he must live in the house for a period of 12 months before receiving rightful ownership.

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