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Tragumna Island Swim on Saturday in West Cork
The fifth annual Tragumna Island Swim will take place this Saturday, July 26th. This year's swim is in aid of development works in Tragumna, which suffered a lot of damage after the recent storms.
It's been through a few tough years, but now the stylish town is ready to be revitalised by a new injection of visitors, writes Nick Bramhill
WEDNESDAY last, July 16th, saw the completion of the Cork County Council's Beacon Retail Programme for fifteen Dunmanway retailers.
Eilish O'Carroll is back home in Castletownshend after the media frenzy at the opening of her new movie, writes Aisling Meath
THE decision by An Bord Pleanla (ABP) to refuse planning permission for a wind farm in an upland region of West Cork has been hailed as a landmark decision
A DEPUTATION, led by the Mayor of Cork County, Alan Coleman, is to travel to Dublin in the coming weeks to meet the new Minister for Transport
COURTMACSHERRY Harbour has again broken its record for the largest number of visiting yachts on one night.
THE attorney general has ruled that couples will now be able to hold their wedding in the grounds of hotels and other approved wedding venues
Following 70% increase in accident fatalities so far this year
CASTLETOWNSHEND Regatta takes place this Sunday, July 20th.
The Skibbereen Arts Festival takes place from Friday, July 25th, to Saturday, August 2nd.
A camera can be a hugely powerful chronicler of the past, artist Tomasz Madajczak tells Siobhn Cronin
Liz Dunphy took time to chat to this summer's mobile caterers at the popular beach
A LECTURE from his mum about leaving his mucky wellies lying around has inspired an unemployed West Cork man to launch a business.
AS Gougane Barra National Forest Park re-opens to the public this week, controversy still surrounds its clear-felling
West Cork Communities Alliance welcomes new Minister of State
REMEMBER those happy days when a cock-a-hoop Kenny floated on air, joyously announcing that Fine Gael was the party of 'openness, transparency and accountability'?
'THE origins of the festival are here'
Crosshaven lifeboat volunteers were tasked by Valentia Coast Guard to reports of a young man with leg injuries near Power Head earlier today.
JEROME Lordan's book, No Flowers on a Sailor's Grave: Shipwrecks of Kinsale and Courtmacsherry, was launched on Tuesday evening at The Speckled Door, Old Head, Kinsale.
IT'S 'sale agreed' on Tony O'Reilly's Glandore home, Shorecliffe House.
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