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Hugo Speytebroodt, owner of the Pantry, Kenmare.
by Stephen Johnson
“The Pantry,” Kenmare’s wholefood store on Henry Street, is celebrating its 40th anniversary this month (April).
The Pantry sells organic foods, local produce, organic wine, herbal tea, alternative medicines, essential oils and nutritional supplements.
Colette Twomey, Clonakilty Blackpudding company
and Eamonn Walsh, Londis Clonakilty.
Londis Stores across West Cork and the whole country have joined forces to help promote the Clonakilty breakfast range as part of their policy of promoting indigenous Irish companies.
Following last year’s rollout of a national chill distribution service by ADM Londis indigenous local companies can now distribute their products to more than 400 Londis stores in Ireland including Walsh’s, Clonakilty and Dunmanway, Hernon’s, Bandon and Hennessy’s in Skibbereen.
A similar Tesco superstore in Westport, Co.Mayo. Pic: Geograph
THE recent granting of planning approval for what will be West Cork’s first Tesco superstore has met with a mixed reaction from local businesses, many of who fear the development will damage existing locally owned enterprises.
The €10 million, 25,000 sq ft mega-store has been approved for a seven-acre site at Newtown on the Glengarriff side of Bantry (next to Rowa) and developers Richard Coffey and Donal Hunt say the new Tesco will create up to 150 full and part-time jobs when it opens in December, injecting €3m in wages into the local economy each year.
THE first seven winners have been announced fot the Skibbereen Monster Draw.
Margo Daly, Bantry
Fiona Harrington, Skibb [Read more...]
DUNMANWAY Enterprise Network launched its Christmas Love local campaign with a bumper day of entertainment that included live music, set dancing and carol singing on Saturday, December 8th last.
The addition of Santa’s post box proved a very welcome attraction as the younger kids got an oppourtunity to post their letters as well as meet the man himself as he arrived in the Square to collect the kids letters and turn on the lights.
ONE lucky Dunmanway shopper will get an extra special €1,000 cash Christmas present this year thanks to the Dunmanway Enterprise Network (DEN) special Christmas promotional draw.
One lucky shopper will win an amazing €1,000 cash prize and free draw tickets are available from participating businesses across thew town where you and can also enter the many festive in-store draws.
Bandon retailers photographed on the Bandon Retail Development Programme pictured with Christine Heffernan, West Cork Enterprise Board, (2nd left front row ) Celine Cummins, PropShop, Visual Merchandiser (3rd left front row) and James Burke, Programme Consultant and Co-Ordinator (2nd right front row) pictured in Bandon. Pic: Clare Keogh
TWENTY five retailers in Bandon and Clonakilty are looking forward to a prosperous Christmas season and New Year with the aid of a new retail training programme funded and managed by The West Cork Enterprise Board.
The intensive programme which took place over the past two months provided participants with the knowledge and expertise to progress their retail businesses and plan ahead for a successful 2013 with the guidance of well known retail guru, James Burke.
DUNMANWAY Enterprise Network will carry out a flyer campaign coming up to Christmas, where 4,000 flyers will be distributed locally by An Post to make the shoppers aware of the attractions in the town over the December 7th-8th period.
The flyer will explain in detail the attractions on offer in Dunmanway as the festive shopping period kicks off in earnest, along with providing shoppers with a list of participating businesses and what they offer.
The mayors of the towns in West Cork have issued a joint appeal to people in their areas to support their local towns in the run up to Christmas by shopping locally. Pic: Paddy Feen
THE first citizens of the towns in West Cork have issued a joint statement appealing to people to shop in their local towns in the lead up to Christmas.
Town Mayors Cllr. Gillian Coughlan, (Bandon); Cllr. Kathleen Tessyman, (Bantry); Cllr. Cionnaith Ó Súilleabháin, (Clonakilty); Cllr. Billy Lynch, (Kinsale) and Cllr. Karen Coakley, (Skibbereen), were joined in the appeal by County Councillor Declan Hurley from Dunmanway (which has no Town Council or Mayor), when they met up at a specially-convened meeting recently.
The new store will open next week. Pic: DID Electrical via Facebook
RETAIL chain DID Electrical are to open a new branch at the former Flor Griffin Superstore site on the Bandon Bypass.
The new store, DID’s 22nd, is expected to create 15 new jobs and will be the 100% Irish-owned company’s first branch in Cork.
BANTRY Blues are delighted to announce the dates for its annual Kellogg's Cul Camp. The camp will take place from Monday the 8th to Fri 12th July at Wolfe Tone Park, Bantry, Co Cork. This … [Read More...]
SKIBB U14s played Barryroe in the league at home last Thursday evening and gave another fine team performance with some very good passages of passing football. Playing into a gale in the … [Read More...]
WEST Cork's Gougane Barra, Beara Peninsula and Kinsale have all made it on to the longlist in The Irish Times competition The Best Place to Holiday in Ireland. They are among 25 holiday … [Read More...]
LABOUR TD for Cork South West, Michael McCarthy, has welcomed the latest tranche of tourism figures from the CSO which show a strong surge in the number of trips to Ireland so far this … [Read More...]
