West Cork News
Body of woman found in Bandon
Gardai have reported that the body of a woman in her 20s was discovered in a house in Bandon today.
RNLI releases dramatic video footage
The RNLI has just unveiled a stunning video of its activities, which features a number of its West Cork bases.
Evan Murray appears in first series of Southern Star Sessions
SINGER Songwriter Evan Murray is appearing in the first of a series of Southern Star Sessions, having won the top prize in the recent X Factor Dunmanway competition.
BY JACKIE KEOGH
EIBHLN O'Sullivan has, for the second time, been appointed chairperson of the Federation of Irish Fishermen (FIF).
Tourism interests in West Cork are invited to a meeting in Bantry tomorrow night (January 28) to discuss plans for a region-wide campaign.
BY JACKIE KEOGH
THREE members of Fianna Fil, including Senator Denis O'Donovan, have declared their intention to seek the party nomination for the next election.
Skibbereen journalist Grinne McCarthy, based in Paris, reflects on how the city - an iconic symbol of romance - is now a changed place since the Charlie Hebdo attack
Southern Star January 24 2104
By Siobhn Cronin
FOUR publicly-run nursing homes in West Cork are under threat of either losing beds or outright closure, according to Fianna Fil's Micheal Martin.
By Liz Dunphy
'It's lovely to be here, boy,' were Mary Kennedy's opening words to this year's Cork Person of the Year awards, said in an impressive Cork accent for a Dubliner to muster.
BY JACKIE KEOGH
FUNDING for the six non-Gaeltacht islands of West Cork - namely Bere, Sherkin, Dursey, Whiddy, Heir and Long Island - has been secured following a late-breaking announcement that their community development offices will remain open in 2015.
By Louise Roseingrave
INTERNATIONALLY acclaimed novelist David Mitchell has teamed up with a west Cork artist to create a limited edition pendant in aid of Autism Ireland.
BY JJ HURLEY
DESPITE installing water meters a little over two months ago, contractors for Irish Water have returned to an estate in Belgooly to carryout out essential maintenance on the original ground works, surrounding at least twenty water meters.
Southern Star January 24 2014
A DUNMANWAY cameraman has worked on a movie which is vying for the title of Outdoor/Adventure Film of the Year from Outsider magazine, which also features swimmer Steve Redmond.
BY JACKIE KEOGH
ADDITIONAL surgical services are to be provided at Bantry General Hospital.
BY JACKIE KEOGH
SKIBBEREEN film editor, Darragh Byrne, will be flying out to Los Angeles next Tuesday because his role in the Oscar-nominated animation movie, Song of the Sea, is up for an Annie Award.
BY JACKIE KEOGH
IT was bad news all around for Bandon this week, with the news that two major projects could be facing hold-ups.
BY SIOBHN CRONIN
THE Carbery Group, which is headquartered in Ballineen, has officially opened Nutrifont in Brazil, a whey processing joint venture between the Irish company and BRF, one of South America's leading food companies.
Gardai are reporting that there have been no fatalities after tonight's head-on two car crash outside Rosscarbery in West Cork.
By Catherine Ketch
IRISH Water has confirmed that additional works carried out at a Macroom housing estate were due to issues with the 'standard of workmanship'.
DE COURCEY Classic and Vintage Club held a presentation night recently to distribute funds raised at the 2014 Harvest Working Day on the farm of Jim and Eileen O'Regan at Coolyrahilly, Barrel's Cross, Kinsale.
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