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In this week's bumper holiday weekend edition of The Southern Star
Another great issue of The Southern Star bringing you the best news, views and information in West Cork.
Wide range of activities at Kinsale Regatta Festival
KINSALE Regatta Festival 2014 will have a range of activities this weekend, on land and sea, for people of all ages and abilities.
By JJ Hurley
THE government's ongoing recruitment embargo is having a negative impact on Kinsale's efforts to mark the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Lusitania.
DOS:
1. DO check your lights, oil, coolant levels, windscreen wiper fluid, tyre pressure and thread depth before you hit the road. There is quite a bit of rain forecast for the weekend so roads will be
THE local food and craft producers on the Sheep's Head peninsula are delighted with a major boast to their plans, thanks to Bantry Credit Union.
WHERE Bantry leads - with regard to the adoption of new casual trading bye-laws - the rest of the country will follow
In its heyday, the pretty seaside village hosted hundreds of summer holiday visitors, arriving by train from Cork.
VISITORS to West Cork can now 'visit' the world-famous hobbit home of Bilbo Baggins from the fantasy world created by JRR Tolkien.
CORK County Council's 'Beacon' retail programme was recently completed by 15 Dunmanway retailers.
A 72-YEAR-old man from Belfast and his son made a rather unusual road trip recently
THE official opening of the revamped Model Railway Village took place last night in Clonakilty this week.
LOCAL attempts to have the coastal route from Clonakilty to Timoleague included in the Wild Atlantic Way (WAW) received a blow this week.
BANTRY singer songwriter Danny Battles has been announced to play the Indiependence Music and Arts Festival in Mitchelstown, Co Cork this weekend.
IRISH Guide Dogs are urgently looking for volunteer puppywalkers in Cork city and the surrounding areas.
LOCAL authority engineers working in the West Cork Municipal District area have agreed to prepare a programme of works that will identify new tourism walking routes.
ROSSCARBERY is getting ready for its August family festival, and revealed its busy programme of events this week.
A BELGIAN yacht was rescued off the coast of Courtmacsherry yesterday afternoon (Monday).
A public information day on the Lower Lee Flood Relief Scheme will be held this Tuesday, July 29th.
BY JACKIE KEOGH
COMMUNITIES living just outside the broadband reach in West Cork are suffering unduly because they cannot avail of normal facilities like online bank or tax payments.
THE Mick Dineen Cycle recalls the memory of a man who died in a workplace accident four years ago.
Fantastic day in Dunmanway as West Cork Masters League earn a 2-2 draw against Republic of Ireland Over 40's international team.
A 'MAZE of maize' is how it's being described - a huge eight acre field sure to bring lots of fun and excitement to West Cork this summer.
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