THE seventeenth annual Leap Show will take place on Bank Holiday Monday, May 6th.
It will include a full schedule of in-hand and ridden classes for horses and ponies held across three rings.
First show of the season in Leap
April 29, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Legendary West Cork venue to host sound engineering course
November 1, 2012 By Leave a Comment
FOR Lawrence White, having recently relocated to West Cork after working in Cork City for the last ten years, it’s all about sound!
Originally hailing from South Africa, Lawrence has over 20 years experience in the professional audio industry. [Read more...]
Big turnout for Leap threshing and vintage day a
October 22, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Pictured hard at work with a 1890 hand threshing machine at the annual Leap threshing and vintage day at the Celtic Ross Hotel, Rosscarbery on Sunday were Ballydehob threshers Dan Collins, Ben Dean, Tom Camier, Pierce Hickey and Dermot O’Donovan.
Pic: Denis Boyle
Time to make the digital switchover
September 18, 2012 By Leave a Comment
PEOPLE across West Cork who have yet to make the switch to digital television are being urged to do so urgently.
Leap hosts first regatta in 21 years
August 2, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Pictured at the first regatta in 21years to be held at Leap were Clare McCarthy, Anna Duggan and Keri Ahern who were competing for Galley Flash. Pic: Denis Boyle
Pictured at the first regatta in 21years to be held at Leap were Kate O’Donovan and Sana Gordan from Rosscarbery. Pic: Denis Boyle
New @skibbereentimes out now
July 10, 2012 By 1 Comment
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t’s here! The first edition of the all-new @skibbereentimes is out today.
@skibbereentimes is a new, FREE, bi-weekly publication bringing you the latest news and events from Skibbereen, Schull, Goleen, Ballydehob, Baltimore, Union Hall, Leap, Glandore, Castletownsend and surrounding areas. [Read more...]
Government to investigate poor Saorview signal in West Cork
May 5, 2012 By 2 Comments
Jim Daly TD has raised the issue
THE Department of Communications, Energy & Natural Resources under Minister Pat Rabbitte is to investigate the availability of the new national digital TV service Saorview in parts of rural West Cork.
Concerns have been raised that the area between Dunmanway and Rosscarbery in particular suffers from very poor reception due to the large number of hills and valleys.
Move over OVNE, welcome The Old Mill Stores
April 25, 2012 By Leave a Comment
THE new, improved Old Mill Stores has opened in Connonagh selling stoves plus all sorts of handpicked homewares, interesting interiors items, groovy gifts and things that defy categorisation.
The new store replaces the former OVNE Antique Stoves premises at the same location.
West Cork lingo goes high-tech with new app
February 28, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Jerome Hughes, Foróige
WOULD you believe it? Two entrepreneurial teens from Leap Foróige Club have developed an iPhone App that translates Cork English into mainstream English.
Sixteen-year-olds Austin Keane and Liam Horgan are also members of Foróige’s democratically elected Reference Panel.
The idea sprang from hearing locals in West Cork using phrases that the lads had never heard outside of their native county.
€1.2m for N71 improvements
February 4, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The N71 near Rosscarbery. Pic: Google
THE National Roads Authority (NRA) have approved funding of €1.2 million for repairs and improvements to two sections of the main N71 road in West Cork.
Six hundred thousand euro has been allocated for overlaying the damaged section from Leap to Connonagh and another €600,000 for the section between and Connonagh and Rosscarbery.
Efforts are also being made by the members of the Western Committee of Cork County Council to have substantial funding allocated from the NRA annual budget to bring the N71 up to “an acceptable standard for the national primary route from Cork city to West Cork”.
