Egle Aniulyte pictured at Cork Circuit Criminal court. Pic: Daragh McSweeney/Cork Courts Ltd West Cork couple found guilty of handling stolen property by West Cork Times Reporter A LITHUANIAN national living in West Cork has been jailed for a year and banned from Ireland for five years on his release arising out of an investigation into a spate of burglaries throughout Cork and Kerry where over €90,000 worth of property was stolen. PERMISSION to resume exploration at the site of one of the worse naval disasters of the twentieth century is under application at the Office of Public Works (OPW). Lying 14 miles off the Old Head of Kinsale in 100 metres (328 feet) of water, the wreck of the RMS Lusitania remains undisturbed since it sank with the loss of 1201 lives at 2.28pm on Friday May 7, 1915. The ship’s owner, American businessman Gregg Bemis, has applied to the OPW for permission to conduct a series of dives on the wreck. Pic: John Allen “Now Wakes The Sea”, the open submission exhibition and award for Irish And UK artists has been announced by the Kinsale Arts Festival For 2013. The initiative aims to support outstanding emerging talent in the visual arts. John Spillane became the first Corkonian to be presented with an official passport, pictured with with Olan Falvey, Clodagh Cooney and Luci Kelleher. Pic: Gerard McCarthy IT’S official, the Rebel County has become the People’s Republic of Cork with the very first Rebel Passport hot off the press! The organisers of the forthcoming Cork Rebel Week (October 14th – 20th), the flagship Gathering event for Cork, have begun distributing the much anticipated Rebel Passports to the county’s finest. They are among 25 holiday hotspots in the race to be named as Ireland’s best place to holiday. Farmers queueing for Fodder in Drinagh. MINISTER for Agriculture Simon Coveney has announced that he has extended the duration of the Imported Fodder Transport Scheme for one week. The scheme will now run until Friday 10th May. The Minister also today confirmed that maize silage is eligible under the scheme. He said his Department has been working with the industry on this and said that large quantities of maize silage up to 6,000 tons are currently being sourced for early delivery to this country. Minister Coveney commended the Dairy co-ops for their work over the past two weeks. The walkway, originally developed as a millennium project and extended in 2007, is a most outstanding and accessible amenity. Overall Winners John McGrath and Frank Walsh from the West Bar Westport pictured with celebrity chef Martin Shanahan at the 3rd annual Chowder Cook Off in Actons Hotel, Kinsale.Picture. John Allen IT was certainly a case of twice as nice for The West Bar, Westport, Co Mayo, as for the second year running they were crowned All-Ireland Chowder Champion at the All-Ireland Chowder Cook-Off which took place in Kinsale on Sunday 21st April. Almost 900 people cast their vote, to choose their champion in the hotly contested All-Ireland Chowder Cook-Off which took place in Acton’s Hotel, Kinsale. The event saw chefs, fishermen and commercial chowder producers from every county of Ireland serve up pots and pots of delicious creamy chowder in a bid to walk away with the coveted title. A UNIQUE “Bookshop Band” from the UK will be appearing at the Bookstor in Kinsale on April 30th as part of their upcoming Irish tour. The Bookshop Band The Bookshop Band write songs inspired by books and are bringing their uniquely-inspired and accomplished songs to bookshops throughout Ireland. Since their first event in September 2010, the band has written over 70 songs inspired by 39 books from Andrew Miller’s Pure (2011 Costa Novel of the Year) to China Mieville’s acclaimed science-fiction novel Embassytown. Hungry Hill. Pic: West Cork Times TOURISM Minister Michael Ring has unveiled the final route for the Wild Atlantic Way, a new touring route running from West Cork to Donegal. The Minister joined Fáilte Ireland to present the final route to 300 top overseas tour operators attending Meitheal 2013, Ireland’s largest tourism trade fair.
by Brian Moore
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.
DURING the May Bank holiday (Weekend May 3rd-6th) there will be a number of organised walks along the route of the Seven Heads Walk.
