West Cork News
Students enjoy 'engineer speed dating' event at MSD
Students from Bandon, Ballincollig and Clonakilty recently visited MSD's site in Brinny where they participated in an 'Engineer Speed Dating' event.
The second highest number of queries to the national Alzheimers helpline came from Cork last year.
Coastal areas of West Cork could be in for a financial windfall, if they secure funding from an EU programme to link Irish and Welsh communities.
AN exhibition of work by local artist Tadhg McSweeney will take place in Ballyvourney next month.
Festivals, heritage groups and disability agencies can benefit from a number of grants offered to voluntary organisations, which could make a very real difference to them.
AN EIGHT year old girl died almost instantly after a horrific road traffic accident while on holiday in West Cork
THE decision to exclude the N71 from the 2015 national road grant allocation has provoked an angry response among the members of Cork County Council
By Siobhan Cronin
BANDON Community Hospital is to be undergo major redevelopment to bring it up to Hiqa standards, the HSE has said.
The hospital was named by the health authority last week as one of a
Enniskeane family the Crowleys have claimed the top prize
A retired public school teacher from Oxfordshire died after a summer sailing trip turned to disaster in West Cork. Douglas Perrin (66) had retired to live at Ard na Gaotha, Dunmanus, Goleen, Co Cork, a year before his death last August.
A NEW tender process for Bandon's long-awaited flood scheme will begin shortly, with the news that the legal challenge has been settled
Irish Guide Dogs is urgently looking for volunteer puppy walkers in Cork and the surrounding areas. The puppy walker's job is to foster and socialise the pup from six weeks to 12-14 months.
The organisation You Are Not Alone will hold a coffee morning for those who are bereaved or affected by suicide in the Montenotte Hotel in Cork today at 11.30am-1pm and the first Tuesday of every month.
A forum for the exchange of views took place at the Uillinn West Cork Arts Centre this week to discuss the possibility of an Arts Trail throughout West Cork, from Beara to Bandon.
A Dunmanway learner driver who crashed his car after drinking, injuring one of his passengers was fined €3,500 as the judge said the four young men in the car that Christmas night were not just carefree, they were careless.
A top West Cork charity has joined forces with a local 'green' group in a visionary initiative to generate its own electricity at its soon-to-be-completed centre.
The Carrigaline to Crosshaven walking route plays host to a charity fundraising event this St Patrick's Day, aimed at raising funds for Aware.
Drimoleague's Finbarr Collins, a 4th Year Bachelor of Business in Hospitality Management student at Cork CIT has won a major cocktail competition.
This Sunday's Junior Space Camp at CIT Blackrock Castle Observatory in Cork city will teach 5-7 year olds how to safely view the upcoming partial solar eclipse on March 20th.
IT'S not often that there's a positive story about internet coverage in West Cork, but this week a small community outside Bantry were happy to tell theirs.
A GROUP of West Cork tree-lovers with an eye to the future are ensuring that their grand-children, and great-grand-children will experience the beauty of a real Irish oak forest.
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