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Railway walk to Bandon named in honour of Dr Clare O'Leary
YET another positive event in the Bandon area took place last weekend with the official naming by the woman herself of the Clare O'Leary Walk, a three-kilometre section of walk along part of the former West Cork railway, parallel to the N71 highway and overlooking the River Bandon.
Video Clip: Dr Clare O'Leary Walk, Bandon
VIDEO CLIP from the official naming by the woman herself of the Clare O'Leary Walk, a three-kilometre section of walk along part of the former West Cork railway, parallel to the N71 highway and overlooking the River Bandon.
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The Southern Star, Saturday December 7th 2013
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Decline in live register figures for Bandon
IT'S official Bandon is bouncing back. In addition to a number of new businesses recently opening and revitalising the town centre, Bandon heads into Christmas with a 8.54% drop in live register figures.
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The Irish National Seismic Network (INSN) has confirmed that an earthquake measuring 2.6 magnitude occurred off the coast of County Cork, at 7.57am today (Wednesday, December 4th 2013)
CLLR Mary Hegarty has welcomed the news that West Cork Music's three festivals were worth more than 2.2m to the Bantry economy this year.
EACH and every one of the 107 pupils at Rath National School took part in an exciting fundraising project on November 14th last when they recorded a two-track CD in the Church of the Sacred Heart.
Ballingeary Pipe Band recently launched a book 'Ballingeary Pipe Band Past and Present' to celebrate their 85th year anniversary.
Presented by the National Parents Council at Abbeystrewry Hall, Skibbereen, on Tuesday, December 10th, from 7 - 9pm
Garda are investigating a fatal road traffic collision on the Bandon to Kilbrittain Road, close to Bandon, this evening, Monday 2nd December, after 6pm.
AN 8.8m wastewater treatment plant in Castletownbere must be completed by the end of 2015, Cork County Council has confirmed to Fine Gael councillor Jerry Sullivan.
CHAIRMAN of the Kilmichael-Crossbarry Commemoration Committtee Con O'Callaghan declared to sustained applause that there will be no Crossley Tender or auxiliary acknowledgement area included when the proposed redevelopment of the historic Kilmichael Ambush site is completed.
Over 12,000 mobile phones, the majority of which are smart phones, worth an estimated 5m have been stolen from people in the last year, according to latest figures from An Garda Sochna.
Cork consumers are spending 350,300,000 online ever year on purchases from companies outside Ireland.
VIDEO CLIP: DOWN & DIRTY IN SKIBBEREEN VIDEO 1: Some 270 competitors took part in the inaugural Down & Dirty 6K Adventure Challenge at Liss Ard Estate, Skibbereen, on Saturday. On a day that was borrowed from Spring, the event was an outstanding success.
Construction work on 70 major projects have been given the green light to proceed to construction in 2014, which includes a both the Skibbereen Post Primary School Amalgamation (Mercy Heights, De La Salle, Rossa College) and the long overdue extension works at Kinsale Community School
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Due to the exceptional level of filing over the last two days, and unprecedented volume of calls to the LPT helpline,, the Revenue Commissioners have decided, as they did last May, to extend the online LPT filing deadline.
Humpback whales feeding at sunset off Baltimore, West Cork on Tuesday, November 26th. (Pic Youen Jacob/Provision)
Amnesty International's global letter writing marathon comes to West Cork
A MONSTER free draw will see shoppers in Skibbereen in with a chance to win 5,000 in shopping vouchers and win a hamper every day between December 1st and 14th.
Kinsale RNLI rescue a seal in distress from the rocks at Sallyport on Sunday afternoon
The Bandon to Kilbrittain road was still closed to traffic early this morning as Gardai continued their investigation into a fatal road traffic collision on the Bandon to Kilbrittain Road, close to Bandon, on Monday evening, December 2nd.
THE death has taken place, at the age of 78 in his adopted city of Jerusalem, of Cork-born Dominican priest, Fr Jerome Murphy-O'Connor, OP, who was acknowledged as one of the world's foremost scholars of the New Testament.
COUNCILLORS have expressed their dismay at the news that the recently-refurbished public toilets at the playground in Skibbereen have been vandalised yet again.
IT was a historic event at a historic location on a sunny November day when Cork County Council formally handed over responsibility of maintenance for the restored remains of Innishannon Tower and St Mary's Church graveyard to the local Tidy Towns committee.
SINN Fin MLA Gerry Kelly was a notable visitor at the Kilmichael ambush commemoration, which was held before a large crowd in splendid sunshine last Sunday afternoon.
Details of the Workshop Programme for the 2014 West Cork Literary Festival have been announced and feature an impressive roster of writers who will be facilitating three and five day writing workshops at next year's Festival, which runs in Bantry from 6th to 12th July.
Slideshow of photographs from the inaugural Down & Dirty 6K Adventure Challenge at Liss Ard Estate, Skibbereen, on Saturday
VIDEO CLIP: DOWN & DIRTY IN SKIBBEREEN VIDEO 2: Some 270 competitors took part in the inaugural Down & Dirty 6K Adventure Challenge at Liss Ard Estate, Skibbereen, on Saturday. On a day that was borrowed from Spring, the event was an outstanding success.
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WORK has begun in Clonakilty on CoAction's new 2.1m purpose-built development for children and adults with special needs.
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