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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.
Clonakilty houses boarded up for over a decade
SOME Council houses in Clonakilty have been boarded up for over a decade, according to a local councillor.
UP to 100 brave swimmers will cross one of Ireland's most beautiful bays this weekend in aid of the RNLI.
Two kayakers came to the assistance of a swimmer who got into difficulty at Lough Hyne on Sunday morning.
A FAMILY picnic day will be held at the Galley Head Lighthouse on Sunday August 10 from noon 'til 6pm.
SWIMMERS at a selection of top west Cork beaches are facing bathing restrictions due to the detection of excessive e.coli levels
CHARGING people for water is akin to a 'toilet tax' for sufferers of Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), according to one councillor.
By Siobhan Cronin
SHERKIN Island's links with the art world bore fruit this week as a group of former DIT artists, who studied on the island, came together for an exhibition at Skibbereen Arts Festival.
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
THE Board of Bantry Credit Union is, from today (Fri), providing a Credit Union service for the people of the Beara Peninsula.
Two people have been airlifted to hospital after their boat capsized in Dunmanus Bay earlier this evening.
CORK County Council is to write to the Government to express its concern over the current conflict in the Middle East.
Summer is in full swing at Cork Airport with the airport treating passengers and staff to free ice-cream cones ahead of the bank holiday weekend ahead.
KINSALE Regatta Festival 2014 will have a range of activities this weekend, on land and sea, for people of all ages and abilities.
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.
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