OPINION: Citizens in dispute with port company over quay closures

OPINION: Citizens in dispute with port company over quay closures
24 Jun 2019They wonder why its principle of ‘open and honest regulatory dialogue’ is not being applied in this caseread more

Southern Star’s Business & Tourism Awards return for a second year

Southern Star’s Business & Tourism Awards return for a second year
24 Jun 2019The West Cork Business & Tourism Awards – an initiative designed to celebrate and recognise excellence in business and tourism across the region – is back for a second year. 

‘We just want PJ home’

‘We just want PJ home’
24 Jun 2019Mum pleads with HSE to fund home care for paralysed son

OPINION: Carbon credits a ridiculous waste

OPINION: Carbon credits a ridiculous waste
23 Jun 2019What’s the point of pretending that we’re meeting targets when we clearly are not? It’s like robbing Peter to pay Paul. Our failures will catch up with us eventually – at which point there will be a much higher...

LETTER: Abbeystrewry Graveyard in need of maintenance

LETTER: Abbeystrewry Graveyard in need of maintenance
23 Jun 2019I would urge anybody who may have sway locally to see that Abbeystrewry Graveyard be tended and maintained, before it is submerged again beneath bushes and briars.

OPINION: Homelessness a problem not just in cities

OPINION: Homelessness a problem not just in cities
23 Jun 2019Many of the people experiencing homelessness in West Cork are relying on the availability of hotels and guesthouses as emergency accommodation, but with the tourist season about to get busier, options will become more...

Inchigeela man walks Oz Outback to raise funds for mental health support

Inchigeela man walks Oz Outback to raise funds for mental health support
23 Jun 2019Inchigeelagh man John Kelleher is walking Australia’s remote Simpson Desert in August to raise money for better mental health support in rural and remote Australia

West Cork Farming Awards time again

West Cork Farming Awards time again
23 Jun 2019West Cork Farming Awards time has arrived once again as we seek nominations for the 5th annual awards, run by The Southern Star in conjunction with the Celtic Ross Hotel. 

Visitors from USA trace roots of heroic Keohanes in West Cork

Visitors from USA trace roots of heroic Keohanes in West Cork
23 Jun 2019Descendants of a father and son remembered for their heroics in the aftermaths of the tragedies that were the Scott Antarctic expedition in 1912 and the sinking of the liner Lusitania in World War I recently travelled...
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