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Now that we can go further..... Add your business 83,000 unique website westcork.ie today! visits last year! explore 2 July 2 – August 5, 2021 Bantry volunteer says Ireland needs to do more to help with refugee crisis “Everyone deserves the since 2016, when her passion inside,” shares Amy. is when they cannot stop smiling same chance at life,” says for international human rights People spend months to years and they are so excited to start humanitarian aid worker and global justice, inspired trapped on the island due to the their lives.” by her Godmother, who has inadequate resources available The role of a volunteer is and UCC law graduate volunteered with many different for asylum processing. “When mostly rewarding. “Being able Amy Boyden from Bantry NGOs over the years, led her to and if their asylum is granted, to teach the residents English “and it should not be begin volunteering with Trocaire many face a transfer to mainland and watching them improve with determined by where you and then also with the NGO Greece where they have more their writing and vocab skills were born.” Amy is volun- Bridge to Resources, Integration difficulties accessing servic- makes me feel very proud,” says and Justice (BRIJ), an organi- es and are often left alone to Amy. “It is a win/win situation, teering at a refugee camp sation that aids people in Direct navigate the complex finance, they want to learn English and on Lesvos in Greece and Provision. medical, and legal systems. it makes me happy. We have shares her heartrending ex- “The conditions across the “If they receive a second re- a good time together, they perience with West Cork Aegean islands for refugees and jection of their asylum they have aren’t just refugees they are my People of the struggle and asylum seekers are horrific and to apply for asylum from the friends.” inhumane,” shares Amy “with very beginning all over again. However, some days in camp conditions the refugees in inadequate shelters and a severe Some of the residents have spent are harder than others. “There the camp face every day for lack of accessibility to various two years of their life waiting to was a case where a mother of years on end. services.” get their application through and three, pregnant with her fourth People can remain in the camp then to be rejected for a second child, put her three children here are approximately for months to years, in a state of time is soul crushing for them. outside the tent and went back 6,000 refugees in the limbo, with no clear answer on All they want is to start living inside and set herself on fire,” Lesvos camp, 2,000 of their asylum application. There their lives again; they want to says Amy sadly. “She couldn’t Twhom are under the age of 18. is also a lack of accessibility of move forwards with their lives take it for one more day. But she Amy, a law graduate from UCC, structured education for children not stay stuck.” didn’t die, and now she is being has been volunteering there for who account for almost half the Despite being faced with prosecuted for arson. the past four months, helping population of the camp. When such hopelessness and harsh “Each refugee has their story, with distribution and outreach matched with the under-re- only one member from each Temperatures in Lesvos conditions every day, Amy their own horror story. Life is programmes, which includes sourced and slow processing of household can leave camp per have now started to rise over says these people are inspiring far from easy; it is a constant providing clothing for babies, asylum applications, this leads week,” says Amy. “The tents are 30 degrees and will continue to in their resilience; they dare to struggle for them. We will never children, teenagers and adults. to a sense of hopelessness and small and have hardly any venti- rise up to 40 degrees. “There dream and aspire like all of us. understand what they have gone She also teaches adult English dismay. lation; in some cases two to three is no shading in camp and, as a “When someone has been grant- through unless it would happen classes to beginners and basics. “The camp has restricted families share these tents. Some result, the tents the refugees are ed asylum and they have been to us. And if it were to happen Amy has been volunteering access for entry and exit, and get along and others don’t.” provided with are too hot to stay accepted to go to Germany, this Continued on next page...

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to you or me we would want to any allegations but the evidence rights.” be helped, as we should be, it is against them is overwhelming. She strongly believes that a basic human right to be treated ‘Push backs’ needs to be brought Ireland needs to take more as a human. to an end; these people are treat- refugees. “These people just want to ed without any humanity.” “When Moria, the previous live in peace, restart their lives Amy passionately believes refugee camp, burned down in Get ready for summer days with our and have a better future for their more needs to be done to help September 2020, Ireland said children. Is this too much to refugees. it would take in four, out of comprehensive range of paints, ask?” “The EU needs to do more, the 12,000 refugees that were blinds and shading solutions. With restricted access and exit Ireland needs to do more, we all displaced due to the fire. Four from the camp on Lesvos due need to do more. people, that is shameful as a to lockdown, there has been a “I find it bizarre that certain country. Delivering all over West Cork & Cork City! greater decline in mental health. countries, such as Denmark, “Since the 1800s, 10 million People are trapped inside the want their refugees who have people have immigrated outside CURTAINS • FABRICS • BLINDS • PAINTS • INTERIOR DESIGN camp and they don’t have access been granted asylum and estab- of Ireland; I think we should HOME INTERIORS & DECORATIVE FURNITURE to the same hygiene levels be- lished their lives in Denmark welcome people the same way Cork Rd, Skibbereen (next to Apple Green) cause they all share the same toi- to be sent back to their country we have been welcomed. Ireland lets and showers. While there are of origin because some of their should also end Direct Provision, 028 23162 • [email protected] • www.fusionhome.ie masks, hand sanitation and rapid countries have been deemed as as this system is inadequate and Opening Times: Mon - Fri 8am to 5.30pm | Sat 8am to 5pm antigen and PCR tests available, ‘safe’. is demoralising. Within this sys- the camp doesn’t always allow “In Kabul, Afghanistan, 40 tem people eat off paper plates, for social distancing; it is not schoolgirls were killed in a use plastic cutlery, are not able to physically possible because there bombing last month; in Iran, work or cook, they are not able are several people sharing tents. an Iranian man was beheaded to live their lives and it is incred- There have also been tensions because of his sexual orientation ibly frustrating and sad. What on the island between refugees and; in Palestine, the Gaza strip do we achieve with this system and those who have extreme far has increased tensions. Israel has except to crush what hope these right ideologies. Amy explains been bombing the Gaza Strip people have left in their lives. how “Lesvos is a small island, and Palestine has responded. We cram people inside small with a population of 80,000, Also in some counties there is rooms, sometimes there could be Mytilene is the biggest city of media control and if you speak six to eight people in one room; 20,000 people and, when Moria, out against the government you families share a space the size the old refugee camp, which run the risk of ‘disappearing’ or of a hotel room. To be in this Four was designed for 3,000 people sentenced life in prison. How system is not living.” reached over 20,000 people, it can countries be deemed safe to Amy, who has month left Generations caused frustration. Lesvos is return to when events like these volunteering on Lesvos before under-equipped and lacks the re- are occurring? The EU should starting her masters in Utrecht sources to deal with that amount not try and persuade people to University in The Netherlands, as your local agent of extra people and should have return to their country of origin; is currently fundraising for the received more support from the they should be allowed to stay purchase of educational materi- European Union.” in the country that they have als for use in weekly educational The term ‘push backs’ is often resettled in. lessons to support the residents heard across the Aegean islands. “We will never understand of the camp in learning English, “This is where the Greek coast- what they have gone through,” German and other languages. guard intercept a boat coming she continues. “They have trav- Such supplies will include from Turkey to Greece and put elled thousands of miles, running notebooks, pens, folders, school refugees onto engineless rafts for their lives, then they have to bags, reading and writing books, Michael Con Ray Con and they are left to drift back to face EU border control, such as and classroom furniture. Funds J O’Neill O’Neill O’Neill O’Neill Turkish waters,” explains Amy. Frontex, hide from the Greek raised will also go towards “This has become a standard coastguard and hope they will urgently needed clothing and procedure since March 2020, survive another day. Helping hygiene items for new-borns when Turkey in an effort to pres- with landings (when a refugee and toddlers who live inside Thinking of selling? sure the EU, told its refugees that boat lands on soil) should be the camp and to the NGO Art Contact your trusted property advisor they would no longer stop them decriminalised. NGOs and indi- Bridge who provide emergency trying to leave Turkey. There is viduals are no longer allowed to support to the displaced Roma a case coming before the ECHR, help with them and if they are Community. 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mental health pro- gramme at National West Cork mental Learning Network A(NLN) Bantry, has been selected by the WHO as one of just health programme 25 programmes globally for inclusion in a new initiative to promote person-centred and targeting isolated rights-based approaches in com- munity mental health services. The Home Focus programme rural communities is was identified through WHO re- search as a leading example of a small outreach service in a rural recognised by WHO setting, using rights-based ap- proaches with a focus on recov- ery. It was the only programme selected from Ireland and will now be showcased globally as a best practice model. The programme delivers a unique service to individuals in the West Cork area, which enables them to enhance their mental health and wellbeing and to promote recovery, within the comfort of their own homes. One of the aims is to reduce Pictured at the NLN Centre in Bantry is Holly Cairns TD, Christopher O’Sullivan TD, admissions to high-support psy- Jason Wycherley NLN Bantry, Fergal Conlon WCDP, Patrick Murphy NLN Bantry and Rory chiatric units and the recurrence Doody HSE. WINDOW BLINDS of admissions, which can be a challenging experience for the Operating from National nal development team said: “We programme is how we blend in DEPARTMENT individual and their family as Learning Network in Bantry, offer a non-clinical, peer-support to the community, reducing the Roller, Vertical, Venetian & more. well the high level of cost in- West Cork since 2006, the service that enables individuals stigma around mental health volved with in-patient services. Home Focus programme in- to work through their recovery services. Our invisibility is key FREE MEASURING & ESTIMATION SERVICE The Home Focus programme volves a unique combination of at home. As a team, we listen, to the service”. emerged from the realisation inputs delivered by staff with we find out what matters to each The team stated that being that many people who live in both lived, personal experience individual, how we can support recognised by the WHO was a a dispersed rural setting with of mental health services, along- them to move from where they “welcome acknowledgement poor transport links are unable side professionals, and offers are, to where they want to be. for all involved”. “It involved to access mental health supports training across all aspects of life Recovery is about growth, a huge amount of collaboration or vocational input, resulting skills. The impact on individuals and allowing people the space across NLN and the West Cork in ever-present issue of social engaging with West Cork Home to come up with the answers Mental Health Service (WC- isolation. Focus is substantial. themselves, allowing them to MHS). I think the nature of the SHOWROOM: The Miles, Clonakilty P85 YK44 This led to West Cork An evaluation study navigate their own recovery”. work we do cannot be understat- Mental Health Service to work conducted on the programme “We are passionate about ed, the value to each individual T: 023 8834113 W: [email protected] creatively with local and na- found that: 89 percent reported community. We build a rela- is immense, and this benefits www.westcorkcarpets.ie tional service providers such as improvements in their personal tionship with the individual the family, the community as a National Learning Network, the and social functioning; 72 per- and accompany them as they whole, and we’re delighted that Open Mon – Fri 9am-6pm | Sat 9.30am-5pm education and training division cent reported improved social broaden their social networks, the WHO has shone a light on of Rehab Group, to develop engagement; 71 percent reported build new skills, attend appoint- this inclusive and supportive a range of interventions to improved independent living; 69 ments and take part in activi- service”. increase levels of connection be- percent reported better mental ties. It could involve assisting The WHO hosted a global tween individuals and their own health and 40 percent reported with applications to MABS to launch of the initiative on June communities, and to facilitate better links with community having a coffee in a cafe. It’s a 10, to showcase the Home access to training, education and groups and support organisa- privilege for us to be invited into Focus programme alongside employment opportunities. The tions someone’s home. We work with 24 other international services team is funded to work with up Patrick Murphy, part of NLN people rather than for people selected as part of the initiative. to 34 people. Bantry management and origi- and part of the success of the Skibbereen’s Ludgate recognised at .IE Digital Town Awards 2021

kibbereen’s The Ludgate course our Board of Directors. Hub took home the We are delighted to now be in a prize for Digital Change- position to guide others through social entrepreneurship. Changemaker category, Skib- Smaker at the virtual awards this journey as they embark on The aim of the awards was to bereen’s The Ludgate Hub won ceremony held in June. their own digital transformation ‘Shine a Light’ on the good work a total prize of €8,500 and was Grainne O’Keeffe, CEO of themselves.” and achievements of towns that recognised for being the first The Ludgate Hub, accepted the The .IE Digital Town Awards, demonstrated digital thinking to create a digital working hub award during the virtual event. established by .IE, the company and innovation for the betterment in Ireland, and as the first rural Grainne says “I am delighted to that manages and maintains of local people, services, and town with 1GB digital connec- accept this award on behalf of Ireland’s country domain name, society. tivity. the Ludgate Board and team. In were launched earlier this year to There was a total prize The .IE Digital Town July this year we will celebrate honour local town projects and fund of €100,000 across 14 Awards mark the first phase of five years and to receive ac- people that have demonstrated award categories. Eleven of the a €1 million investment to be knowledgements like the Digital how digital projects have contrib- awards were for individual town delivered by .IE over the next Town AwardsChangemaker uted to enhancements or digital projects, with a further three spe- four years, with a focus on digital award for 2021 is a great honour. improvements in areas such as cial awards recognising a Digital enhancement and adoption in Ire- What we have achieved to date health, tourism, education, public Changemaker, a Digital Rising land’s towns as part of its overall is no small feat, it’s been years services, employment opportuni- Star, and a Digital Hero. .IE Digital Town programme. of hard work by our team and of ties, citizen empowerment, and As winner of the Digital July 2 – August 5, 2021 5

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allymoney National In September, the school put gave the pupils a chance to sit School, a small, rural, a sign up appealing to mem- and chat to each other, as they two-teacher school in bers of the local community to stuck the bottle tops in place, BBallineen has recently complet- collect plastic bottle tops. “The which was exactly what they ed a collaborative art project response was incredible! For needed after the long school designed to help its pupils feel months people have deliv- closure. Our wonderful parents connected to each other during ered bags of bottle tops to the helped permanently secure the the current restrictions. The school,” says Shireen. glued bottle tops in place with fantastic mural, which depicts The school’s talented screws.” a view of depicts the school’s resource teacher, Esther Quin, This week the mural was view of Ballineen Bridge with drew the mural on six sheets of finally erected on the back Enniskeane village on one side plywood in December and the of the school shelter on the and Ballineen village on the senior classroom painted it. Rossmore Road. It shows some other side, stretches 24 foot long “The parish hall adjacent of the wildlife, including herons and eight foot high and com- to the school had no events and swans, that the pupils are prises of 12,400 bottle tops. happening and so we were able lucky enough to see from their “Our two classrooms have to store the mural there. When playground. been completely separated the junior classroom returned “We hope it brings a smile this year due to Covid-19 to school in March, they began to the faces of passersby to see restrictions. They have sep- sticking the plastic bottle tops what we have created from their arate entrances and separate in place. Everyday they sent rubbish,” says Shireen. “The breaktimes,” explains Principal an updated photograph of their parents and staff are extremely Shireen Rountree. ‘So we came progress to show the senior proud of the children’s wonder- up with an art project to help classroom who were still learn- ful achievement.” our pupils feel more connected ing remotely on zoom. to each other.” “Constructing the mural 6 July 2 – August 5, 2021 Clonakilty scheme shows value of community employment he Clonakilty Area Sports of the work done.” are developing an area known Club community employ- John Moloney, another locally as ‘Bennet’s field’, which ment scheme (CASG) has member of the CASG committee is being turned into a biodiversi- Tbeen working in the community and chair of Rosscarbery Tidy ty garden complete with a pond, in some shape or form for the towns agrees. “We recently a bandstand and raised beds last 30 years and the experience erected a ‘Famine Pot’ in the full of vegetables for the local over the last 15 months has per- town and the CE participants community to enjoy. haps been a reminder of just how brought their skills and hard Catherine O’Connor is the important that work is. work to make it a new and PRO of Clonakilty Tidy Towns. Community employment beautifully poignant feature in “Clonakilty Tidy Towns could (CE) provides an opportunity for the town. Overall the work done not perform at such a consist- people who find themselves out by the CE participants creates a ently high standard without of work to get work experience wonderful environment for us all the support of the CE Scheme in the community doing a variety to live in. There is great pride in participants and their support is of valuable jobs. In return partic- what is contributed to the local instrumental in Clonakilty’s level ipants on the scheme get access community by the community of success achieved over recent to quality training as well as a employment participants.” years”. chance to build on skills they Another of the projects within Ronan Murray has just com- already have or develop new the scheme is Saint James’s pleted two years on the scheme skills. All the wages, training GAA club in Ardfield. The working at Rathbarry Tidy funds and materials budget is development officer at the club, towns. Ronan describes the ben- funded through the Department James Butler, said that they efits to him as a participant on of Employment and Social would struggle to maintain the the scheme. For him, the benefits Michael O’Mahony and Roger Forsyth building the base for the Famine Pot Protection (DEASP). facilities to the standard they are of being part of this scheme were There are, at the last count 34 without the work of the commu- twofold. On the one hand Ronan posts in 12 different projects and nity employment participants. He describes how he felt he was parttime work he is now getting locations in Clonakilty, Rosscar- pointed to the example of how, adding to the life of the commu- as a landscaper.“My plan is to bery, Rathbarry, and Ardfield. for the first time Saint James’s nity. “Members of the communi- expand my work as a landscaper These community posts are in ar- GAA was awarded a West Cork ty would come up to me on the to make it full time and develop eas such as gardening, caretaking Junior A’ final to host. road and tell me of the impact my career in this area.” and maintenance, administration, “This was in recognition of the work that I did and what Kevin McCaughey is the CE social care, and sports surface of the quality of our facilities, that meant to them. One woman supervisor and has seen first maintenance. Many clubs (or including the new scoreboard commented that the work I had hand the exciting work done by sponsors) would struggle to do we erected and the overall high done up at the well made it one participants on the scheme, as the work they do without the standard maintained at the club. of her favorite places to go and well as the progression shown by support of the scheme. This simply would not have sit. This kind of comment made many on the scheme. “This valuable community happened without the work and all the work worthwhile.” Ronan “CE can be a chance for some- work would not happen without skills of the community employ- described an added but equally body who has been out of work the work of the community em- ment participants.” important part of his experience. for a while to get involved in the ployment participants,” Michael Another sponsor on the “Being part of the scheme also community and do important Coughlan, chairperson of the scheme, Clonakilty Tidy Towns gave me the opportunity to work. It can be dispiriting for CASG Management Committee has enjoyed great success in develop my business. I was able somebody to be out of work and says. “I am also on the Ardfield national awards and is often seen to develop my publishing and that can impact on their self-con- Tidy Towns committee and, as an example of innovation and graphic design business (www. fidence and belief in themselves. as one of the sponsors of the creativity. Last year Clonakilty mcpublishing.ie). Ronan is now I have seen real transformations scheme, we can see directly Tidy Towns developed a sensory able to leave the scheme and in people from their time on the impact of the work of the garden at the West Cork Model devote himself full-time to his the scheme. Their confidence participants to the environment Railway Village, a wonderful business. has improved and they have Christopherin Ardfield. You could say that contribution to community life “I don’t think this would started to consider avenues for they form the backbone of much in Clonakilty. This year they have been possible without the themselves that they may have Ronan Murray at work in Rathbarry repairing a Spinning support of the scheme”. not before. CE provides a chance Wheel. Another participant on the for them to consider what they O’Sullivan TDscheme, Roger Forsyth is based would like to do. Many people at Pairc ‘n’ Tobair in Rosscar- have not had the opportunity to Christopher bery, an area of unspoilt beauty reflect on what they themselves beside the lagoon in Rosscar- would like to do, what career bery, now under the trusteeship they would like to pursue, what of Green Sod Ireland. Roger is skills they would like to develop. O’Sullivan TD CE gives that time and also coming to the end of his three years on the scheme and expects crucially the training budget to to complete a Major Award in put it into action.” Constituency Horticulture before he finishes. There are 12 different spon- sors in the scheme and apart office open by He describes the great feeling of satisfaction from being part from those described above there appointment. of the transformation at Pairc is Lisavaird Community Hall and ‘n’Tobair. “It is a beautiful place Tidy Towns, Rosscarbery Social To ensure the safety to work now. We have polytun- Services, Rosscarbery Pitch and of all my office on nels, chickens, woodland. It’s a Putt, Clonakilty Community Hall 40 Ashe St, Clonakilty gem of a place.” Roger also sees Association, Carbery Rangers other benefits of his time on the GAA and Clonakilty Community is open by Care. appointment only. scheme. “Before I started on the For any further information Please contact me on scheme, I had been looking on the work of the sponsors 023 8811 011 or after my children at home for a including any vacancies on the via email to arrange a while and probably felt a little bit scheme Kevin McCaughey can be contacted at 0852579501 or meeting or appointment. isolated. By joining the scheme in Rosscarbery Tidy Towns first at Kevin.mccaughey@casp- and then Pairc ‘n’ Tobair, I was groupce.com. able to meet new people, learn Sinead Burton also super- new skills and apply those skills vises another CE scheme in ConstituencyConstituency Office: Office: to developing the wonderful Clonakilty and can be contacted 40 Ashe40 Ashe St, St, Clonakilty, Clonakilty, Co. Co. Cork, Cork, P85V308. P85V308. on 085 8622665 or at sinead. Tel: 023 88 11011 Email: [email protected] environment in Rosscarbery.” Tel: 023 88 11011 Email: [email protected] Roger describes how he has [email protected] for any been able to take the skills he information about vacancies and Recently installed Famine Pot in Rosscarbery has developed and apply them to opportunities. July 2 – August 5, 2021 7

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2106_Bandon_easy_gardening_West_Cork_People_Ad_d1.indd 1 22/06/2021 18:15 8 July 2 – August 5, 2021 Union Hall RNLI welcomes Letter from the Editor new member and new vessel Welcome to the July edition of West Cork People, A disappointing start to July with the reopening of indoor hospitality delayed. As an older lady so aptly put it in passing to me this morning nion Hall RNLI Hall lifeboat station at a later “Will we ever be rid of this bloody thing?” We can only hope! assisted two people late date. Mary O’Brien last month after their The new lifeboat has some Despite this setback, the summer has well and truly kicked off in U34ft yacht got into mechanical advancements on its prede- West Cork and with our newfound reliance on weather apps, it’s Editor probably sensible to keep in mind the adage ‘that there is no such difficulty off Toe Head. The cessor. The Atlantic 85 design thing as bad weather, only unsuitable clothing’ when dining outdoors. volunteer crew were requested allows room for four crew I’m looking forward to catching up with old friends over good food to launch their inshore lifeboat members and more kit than the and wine whatever the weather and, with the schools out, I’ve already ‘Margaret Bench of Solihull’, Atlantic 75 lifeboat, which only started a long list of things to do and places to see, all in West Cork. by the Irish Coast Guard. The had room for three crew mem- Call me lazy, but I can’t find the enthusiasm needed to get in the car lifeboat helmed by Michael bers. The lifeboat is powered by and drive for hours to go somewhere when it isn’t West Cork! Instead Limrick with Liam Limrick and two 115 horse power engines we’re doing a house swap with a friend who lives in Baltimore and Craig Jennings onboard, was on and has a stronger hull and are planning lots of daytrips for the rest of the summer. I thought I’d a training exercise at the time, greater top speed of 35 knots. miss flying off somewhere, but as the chief holiday organiser every Sheila Mullins and launched back out to sea at The added radar allows the year I’m actually enjoying the time off. 9pm. This was a maiden shout crew to operate more effectively Creative Director for volunteer crew member in poor visibility and there is In between all these daytrips we’ve been busy putting together anoth- Craig, originally from Mayo also VHF direction-finding er jam-packed issue of West Cork People for you celebrating all that and now resident in Union Hall. equipment. The vessel also has is good about the people and the place where we live. Despite the cur- rent challenges posed by the pandemic, it’s heartening to see the great The lifeboat made its way to Union Hall RNLI volunteer a manually operated self-right- work done by people in the community at home on schemes such as the area off Toe Head where the crew member Craig ing mechanism which com- crew observed that the yacht bined with inversion-proofed the Clonakilty Area Sports Club community employment scheme Jenning. Pic: Pamela Deasy was making progress but was engines keeps the lifeboat oper- (CASG) or abroad such as the work young humanitarian aid workers slow due to mechanical issues. ational even after capsize. The like Amy Boyden from Bantry are doing to help the refugee crisis. the West Cork lifeboat station Sea conditions were good at the lifeboat can also be beached in last week, replaces the last For stories like these and lots more see inside, time with a moderate northerly an emergency without causing Atlantic 75 in Ireland, Margaret Ronan Ryan breeze, so the volunteer crew damage to its engines or steer- I hope you enjoy the read. Until next month, Bench of Solihull, which has stayed alongside the yacht and ing gear. Sales Consultant been used to save lives at sea in Mary escorted it back to the pier at The Atlantic 85 which was West Cork since 2017. Previous Union Hall. introduced to the RNLI fleet in to this, Maritime Nation was West Cork People Speaking following the 2005 also carries a full suite of in service from 2014. Both of Old Town Hall, call out, Peter Deasy, Union communication and electronic these lifeboats came from the McCurtain Hill, Hall RNLI Deputy Launching navigation aids, as well as a RNLI’s relief fleet. The new Clonakilty, Co. Cork. Authority said: “Our volunteer searchlight, night-vision equip- lifeboat was officially declared www.westcorkpeople.ie crew were just returning from ment and flares for night-time WE’RE HIRING! a search and rescue asset by the an exercise and a busy day of operations. Irish Coast Guard last night, We are looking for a Sales & Admin Executive to join our office training so I asked the crew if Speaking following the Contributors Thursday 24 June. in the heart of Clonakilty town. This is a busy and varied role, they would like an alternative lifeboat officially going on Kate Arbon The new lifeboat has been where no two days will ever be the same. crew but they were very willing service, John Kelleher, Union funded through a legacy from Karen Austin to interrupt their training and Hall RNLI Lifeboat Opera- This role is based on 4 days with flexibility, allowing you to the late Raymond Fielding. proceed to assist the casualties. tions Manager said: ‘We are achieve the perfect balance between your work and your Hannah Dare Raymond and his wife Christine We congratulate Craig Jennings extremely grateful to Raymond personal commitments. Options include spreading 4 days over Tina Pisco were keen sailors and sailed into on what started as a three hour Fielding for his generous legacy 5. We’ll work with you to find the right balance. Glandore Harbour many times Louise O’Dwyer training exercise for him but donation which has funded over the years. Due to his many What you’ll do: John Hosford turned into nearly five hours at our permanent lifeboat here at fond memories of West Cork, - Actively and creatively source potential advertising sea and included his first call Union Hall. As we welcome Sean Creedon he wanted his legacy to fund an opportunities and engage new business. out with Union Hall RNLI. a new lifeboat, there is also a Atlantic 85 class lifeboat and he - Look after current customers, maintaining strong working Tania Presutti “We would remind everyone sense of nostalgia as we are the requested that it came to Union relationships with key decision makers in local businesses. Noah Chase for the season ahead to always last lifeboat station in Ireland to Hall. - Work with the editors on story and feature ideas. carry a means of communica- use an Atlantic 75 lifeboat. Shane Daly Volunteer lifeboat crew began - General office administration. tion and wear a lifejacket.” ‘We are looking forward to Pauline Murphy familiarisation training on the In further local RNLI news, being the custodians of this new What you’ll have: new lifeboat on Monday. The Kieran Doyle A new inshore Atlantic 85 class lifeboat which will allow our - Experience or qualification in print media/advertising/PR/ Christine and Raymond Field- Sherna Malone lifeboat has officially gone on volunteers to go on to rescue marketing or similar discipline a plus but not essential. We look ing will be officially named at service at Union Hall RNLI. and save many more lives in the at the merits of all work and life experience. Tommy Moyles a special naming ceremony and The lifeboat which arrived at years to come.’ - You will have excellent interpersonal skills. Jean Perry service of dedication at Union - You will have a good memory... especially for names and faces! Fiona Hayes - You will posses flawless communication skills both spoken and Grace O’Sullivan MEP written. Rosari Kingston - You will be organised with excellent attention to detail. - You will be creative and possess the ability to act on initiative Dr Jeff Featherstone when required. Pat Culhane - You will be personable and friendly with a great sense of Paul Lordan humour! April Danaan Experience preferred: Eugene Daly customer service: 2 years or sales/media: 2 years. James Waller Education: Liz O’Mahony Advanced/Higher Certificate Required in any discipline. What we offer: - Competitive salary of €23,000/year plus bonus structure. Advertisers Please Note: West Cork People does - Flexible working. not accept liability for any loss or damage caused by any error or inaccuracy in the printing of any - A supportive working environment. advertisement. We reserve the right to refuse or amend any advertisement, notwithstanding where, when or by whom accepted for publication, more- If this role sounds like just your cup of tea we’d love to hear from over we reserve the right to discontinue with the publication of any advertisement previously pub- you! Please apply to [email protected] with your CV lished. Please note further that we cannot accept and cover letter telling us why you’d like to work at West Cork responsibility for one or more incorrect insertion and that no re-publication will be granted in the People. case of typographical or minor changes which do not detract from the value of the advertisements. Union Hall RNLI’s new lifeboat, Christine and Raymond Fielding West Cork People July 2 – August 5, 2021 9 Clonakilty Credit Union announces third annual College Bursary Draw

f you are starting to put to- for weekends.” gether a list of things you’ll Laura has just finished her need for starting college second year, entirely online Ithis autumn, Clonakilty Credit from her home in Ardfield, and Union can offer a helping hand. is really looking forward to Their Education Loan is ideal getting back to Limerick in the Clonakilty’s finest interiors store for students with a low interest autumn: “Just to live a normal rate, flexible repayment options student life again,” she says. LIVING & and very high approval rate. For To enter this draw you must DINING possibly the first loan of their have completed your leaving BEDS & adult life, students won’t find a certificate year in June 2021 MATTRESSES friendlier or more understand- and intend on completing a full ing organisation to deal with. time Diploma/Degree at a Third Clonakilty Credit Union is Level Institution, apprenticeship Former winner also delighted to be organis- or a full-time PLC. You must CURTAINS ing its Kevin Mullen College Laura Walsh open or hold an account with & BLINDS Bursary Draw for the third year Clonakilty Credit Union. Only running. This draw has been set those commencing their first up to help with the many costs Cork Chapter stages. Cork with West Cork Connect. year are eligible. of college and has been named Entry for the College Bur- Former Sacred Heart student You can enter online at www. to honour the late Kevin Mullen sary Draw is open to Leaving Laura Walsh was a winner in clonakiltycreditunion.ie or pick CARPETS, for his contribution to the Credit Certificate students in its 2019 and she found her €500 up an entry form from the Cred- VINYLS & Union movement. Kevin joined common bond – Sacred Heart prize a huge help in her first it Union office on Kent Street. RUGS Clonakilty Credit Union in the Secondary School, Clonakilty; year at Mary Immaculate Entry forms must be completed 1970s and was a member of Mount Saint Michael Second- College in Limerick, where in full and returned to the Credit Professional Design Service available by the Board of Directors at the ary School Rosscarbery and she is studying Education and Union by 5pm on September Trevor Perrott BA (HONS) Interior Achitecture & Design time of his death in 2019. His Clonakilty Community College Psychology. “It really does go a 30, 2021. – who will be going to college long way if you spend it wise- involvement with the youth The Bursary and Free Travel Clogheen Industrial Park, www.perrotts.ie of Clonakilty was his greatest in Autumn 2021. ly,” Laura advises. “I used a Pass will be allocated by an Clonakilty. P85 W303 achievement and many young, One student from each of small amount to treat my mum Open Draw which will be held T: 023 8850855 M: 086 2420602 and not so young, people will these three secondary schools to dinner, bought stationery and publicly in the Credit Union E: [email protected]. Closed Mondays. remember Kevin compèring the will win €500 cash each. One a laptop case for college and office on a date to be announced Open Tue-Fri 9am-6pm. Sat 10am-5pm annual Credit Union School’s other student will win a travel still had six months of petrol later. Closed 1-2pm for lunch. Quiz, both in the Clonakilty and pass for year’s free travel to money to get back to Clonakilty

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his summer a lot of on a summer job. As she is If the young person is under to these tips. However, the law Cork on 0761 07 young people will be only 14-years-old, I would 16, the employer must get does not require you to hand 8390. They will be taking up summer jobs like to know if there are limits the written permission of the these tips to your employer happy to assist you Tfor the first time, particularly to the number of hours that child’s parent or guardian. In either. Instead, it all depends on and if necessary ar- in the hospitality and retail she can work? general, employers must see the custom and practice in your range an appointment sectors. This can lead to parents Children aged 14 or over a copy of the young person’s workplace. If all tips are col- for you. or the young people themselves may do light work during the birth certificate, or other lected by management and paid The offices are having a range of questions in school holidays where the evidence of their age, before to staff through the payroll, staffed from 10am relation to their employment hours do not exceed sev- employing them. then these tips are subject to tax -5pm from Monday to rights and entitlements. en in any day or 35 in any What rates of pay are there in the normal way. Thursday and on Fri- The working hours for week. Children aged 15 may for young people? If you need further infor- day from 10am -4pm. young people are regulated do eight hours a week light Since January 1, 2021, mation about any of the issues Alternatively you can by the Protection of Young work in school term time. the national minimum wage is raised here or you have other email on bantry@ Persons (Employment) Act The maximum working week €10.20 per hour. This does questions about your employ- citinfo.ie or log on to 1996. The Act sets maximum for children aged 15 outside not mean that everyone is ment rights, you can call a www.citizensinforma- working hours, rest intervals school term time is 35 hours, automatically entitled to receive member of the local Citizens tion.ie and prohibits the employment or up to 40 hours if they are on this. Young people aged under Information Service in West of young people aged under 18 approved work experience. 18 are only guaranteed up to in late night work. The Act does Is the situation different for 70 per cent of the national mini- not apply to children or young my son who is aged 16? mum wage, which is €7.14 per Springboard+ Springboard+ course, if you in on springboardcourses. people who are employed by a The maximum working week hour. Your employer can pay are getting a qualifying social ie and apply online, following close relative. for young people aged 16 and you more than the minimum I’m unemployed and I want welfare payment such as Job- the instructions on the website. Speaking about the employ- 17 is 40 hours, with a maxi- wage if they want, but you to return to work. Are there seeker’s Allowance, Jobseek- You can apply to up to 10 ment of young people, Anne mum of eight hours a day. If a should be aware that they are free courses I can take to er’s Benefit or the COVID-19 courses, but you can only take O’Donovan, West Cork Citi- young person under 18 works not required to do so by law. develop my skills so that I am Pandemic Unemployment one course. zens Information Manager, said for more than one employer, How do I avoid paying more employable? Payment (PUP). You can get a If you are getting a social that some young people may be the combined daily or weekly emergency tax? Springboard+ pro- full list of qualifying payments welfare payment, you should starting work for the first time hours of work cannot exceed When you start your first vides free higher education for Springboard+ on citizensin- notify your Intreo Centre or and while it can be exciting, it the maximum number of hours job, you should tell Revenue courses for people who are formation.ie local Social Welfare Branch can also be a daunting prospect allowed. Young persons are as soon as possible, or you unemployed (or were self-em- If you are not getting a Office and check what further if they are unsure of their rights only permitted to work between may have to pay emergency ployed) and those looking to qualifying social welfare steps (if any) you need to take. and entitlements. She added 6am and 10pm. tax. They will send a Revenue return to the workforce. payment, you will have to If Springboard+ doesn’t that sometimes employers are Can young people be asked payroll notification (RPN) to Courses are offered in differ- meet the residency criteria for meet your needs, there are unclear about their responsi- to work late in the evening? your new employer. The RPN ent areas including information Springboard+. several other ways to go back bilities in relation to employ- In general, young people will tell your employer how and communications technol- You can also apply for a to education. ing young people also. It is aged 16 and 17 are not allowed much Income Tax and Uni- ogy (ICT), medical technolo- Springboard+ course if: You Know Your Rights has been are a qualified adult of working compiled by Citizens Informa- important that people are aware to work before 6am in the versal Social Charge (USC) to gies, cybersecurity, sustainable age (under 66) on someone tion West Cork, which provides that staff at the local Citizens morning or after 10pm at night. deduct from your pay. energy and financial services. else’s social welfare payment; a free and confidential service Information Service are there to Employers may not require What is the situation in The courses range from cer- You are signing for social in- to the public. WEST CORK provide support and to answer children aged 14 and 15 to relation to tips? tificate to master’s degree level surance credits; You are on an HELPLINE 0761 078 390. any questions that may arise for work before 8am in the morn- If you are working in a – levels 6 to 9 on the National Employment support scheme Email Bantry.cic@citinfo. either employers, young people ing or after 8pm at night. workplace where staff are given Framework of Qualifications such as Community Employ- ie Information is also available or their parents. Do parents have to give tips and gratuities by customers (NFQ). Most of the courses are ment or TUS online at citizensinformation. The following are some their permission for their (such as a restaurant, bar, etc.) part-time and last for one year To apply for a Spring- ie and from the Citizens Infor- common queries: child to take up a summer there is nothing in law to state or less, but there are some full- board+ course, you choose the mation Phone Service, 0761 My daughter wants to take job? you are automatically entitled time courses. You can access a free course(s) you are interested 07 4000.

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Ulster and north Leinster, the (Hag of Beara) is a Her repulsiveness, perhaps a Hag of Beara was closely asso- mythical old woman in metaphor for the responsibilities ciated with corn and harvesting. TIrish literature and folklore, as- of both kingship and adult- There was widespread allusion sociated with west Munster, but hood, initially puts him off, but to a hag (cailleach) as spirit of especially with the Beara Pen- he eventually relents. On the the harvest, which was said to insula in West Cork. Originally morning after their lovemaking, race from the reaper’s scythe her name was ‘Boí’, a variant the hag is transformed into a in the form of a small animal, of the word for a cow, ‘bó’, At beautiful maiden. especially that of a hare. the tip of the Beara Peninsula The ‘Cailleach Bhéara’ is A man who could work as is ‘Oileán Baoi’ (Boi Island), thought to have taken many fast as a racing hare would, of today known as Dursey Island. lovers, including the fero- course, be a phenomenal fast Undoubtedly first a goddess, cious Fenian warrior ‘Fothad reaper, and so the idea could FACT she is featured in a poem of AD Donainne’. Later she was linked develop of a contest between Mancán Magan, in ‘Thirty or a private gentleman, could 900, where she is an old woman to landforms and attributed with a reaper and the ‘Cailleach Two Words for Field’, tells us have a drink. ‘Cailleach’ was an & FOLKLORE lamenting the loss of her youth, powers that transformed animals Bhéara’. One story tells how that in mythology the ‘Cail- anchor made of stone, usually and she remained celebrated in into standing stones surviving one year she had a huge field leach’ was the personification at the end of a fishing net. The Eugene Daly both oral and written traditions from Neolithic times. In Gaelic of corn and that she issued a of winter and that her veil may old fishermen of Cape Clear up through the 20th century. Scotland, where she was known challenge to all and sundry to have represented the land being were well used to the word in A retired primary teacher, West Somewhat sinister but wise, she as ‘Cailleach Bheur’, she had a engage in a reaping contest with covered with frost and snow. In this sense. Cork native Eugene Daly has came to be thought of as a nun blue face as the daughter of the her. Every man who took up the parts of Ireland her method for As the ‘Cailleach’ was a lifelong interest in the Irish in early Christian times. The pale winter sun and became a fe- challenge was defeated by her in hastening winter to come was often portrayed as somewhat language and the islands (both word ‘cailleach’ comes from the male spirit of the wilderness and the reaping race and had his legs flying and beating back the sum- sinister – black-clad, veiled his parents were islanders). Latin for a veil, ‘pallium’. But the protector of wild animals. cut from under him by a stroke mer vegetation with a cudgel, and otherworldly, the owl was He has published a number of she also speaks of having many In Ireland citations of her age of her sickle or scythe. Eventu- known as a ‘forca’. often called the ‘cailleach oiche’ local history books and is a lovers, children, foster-children, became proverbial, so that when ally, a wily man discovered that ‘Cailleach’ has another range (night witch). An alternative regular contributor on folklore as well as grandchildren. She people reached very advanced she had a black beetle hidden of meaning stemming from her name for the cormorant is the to Ireland’s Own magazine. never relates Christian wisdom. years they were said to be ‘as in the handle of her implement, role as guardian of herbs and ‘cailleach dhubh’. The egg case Eugene’s fields of interest The personification of old as the ‘Cailleach Bhéara’’. and realising that this was a food stores, especially during of a small shark, dogfish or span local history, folklore, the power and authority of a In her lamented lost loves, her magical device to give her great the winter. ‘Cailleach’ can refer skate, is known as ‘sparán na to a little alcove in the kitchen caillí mairbhe’ (the purse of a Irish mythology, traditions and kingdom, as a woman to be won crabbed promises of sovereignty speed, he killed the beetle and for storing your pipe, knitting, dead witch). A great long sleep placenames. sexually, predates literature to fearful but aspiring princes defeated her in a contest. She written in any Celtic language. and her extreme longevity, then revealed to him her great matches, rosary beads, etc. It can be called (the sleep of the According to the convention- she became an embodiment of age and told him some details can refer to a snug in a public old woman of Beara). alised steps in the story, the human disappointment, like us from her life, which contains house which was a little room would-be king encounters an in everything but mortality. some accounts of her love hidden from the main bar, where ugly hag who invites him to In the folklore of Connacht, affairs when young. ladies or others, such as a priest West Cork’s kindness reaches East Africa

Rev Tony Murphy visited Abbeystrewery parish near Baltimore on 4 May. It was the turn of Ross parish near Rosscarbery on 6 May.

hristian Aid Ireland has African country. and medical bills. the cooperative had made: due to the coronavirus pandemic Rev Tony Murphy recalled his thanked the people of West Rev Tony was joined by local Rev Tony, who was born in “Because of the cooperative, while churches were closed and visit to Burundi: Cork for their support rectors and parishioners and Clonmel, County Tipperary, vis- my harvest has increased. Before Rev Murphy is delighted that his “The support of Cork diocese Cfor the fundraising efforts of supported on many of the walks ited Burundi in October 2019 to we had a storage room, our pilgrimage has helped achieve the was hugely appreciated by the a Carrigaline clergyman who by Andrew Coleman, Christian see for himself how the support of harvest would spoil. Now I get yearly target for 2021. people in Burundi, a people with recently completed a sponsored Aid Ireland’s Bandon-based Cork diocese is enabling farmers high quality maize flour from the Christian Aid Ireland Chief spirit and resilience who are work- walk around County Cork, raising Church and Community Officer. in Burundi to move from subsist- processing plant. With the extra Executive Rosamond Bennett ing hard to move from subsistence more than €11,000 for the agen- On the final day of his walk, he ence farming, where they grow money, I have bought goats and paid tribute to the people of West living. The cooperatives are doing cy’s work in Burundi, a country was joined by the Mayor of Cork, food to survive, to a business also land for myself. I can pay for Cork and those across the county. so well that the hope is that they affected by poverty, hunger and independent Councillor Mary model where they grow food for school materials for my children.” She said: will have become self-sustaining conflict. Linehan Foley who came along to sale, in order to thrive. Rev Tony’s pilgrimage brings “West Cork’s kindness is reach- by the end of next year and won’t Rev Tony Murphy’s month- congratulate him for his fundrais- Local farmers, most of whom to more than €70,000 the sum ing all the way to East Africa, require further support.” long pilgrimage began in Bantry ing efforts. are women, receive training in raised within the diocese since bringing hope and opportunity to If you would like to sponsor on May 1 and concluded in The small Church of Ireland good farming techniques and are 2017 to fund the project. The people living in poverty. Where Tony’s walk, you can make an Youghal on May 27. He visited community of County Cork, com- given access to a harvest storage cooperatives were established once the members of our coop- online donation here: www. each of the 22 parishes in the prising just 10,000 people, is the facility as well as a small maize by Christian Aid’s local partner, eratives were merely surviving, justgiving.com/fundraising/ Church of Ireland diocese of Cork, sole funder of three Christian Aid processing plant. Speaking in the Anglican Church of Burundi now they’re thriving. We’re very walking4burundi or you can post Cloyne and Ross and walked farming cooperatives in Burundi 2019, one member of the coopera- in the south of the country and grateful to Rev Tony, and to Bish- a cheque to Rev Tony Murphy, for at least 5km at each location on which hundreds of poor fami- tive, Esperance Kigongwe (44), a Cork diocese has committed to op Paul Colton and all the local 9 Riverside, Carrigaline, County while collecting sponsorship for lies depend to boost their incomes, maize farmer and mother of eight funding them for this year and rectors and parishioners who sup- Cork, P43 FP11 marked ‘Burundi’ Christian Aid’s projects in the East enabling them to pay school fees children, explained the difference next year. Funding levels declined ported his walk so generously.” on the reverse. July 2 – August 5, 2021 13 When a country was subjugated by a company now and it did in India. The dif- as the most powerful protagonist the first Indian words that en- ference is, the EIC interference Getting a foot on the continent, more powerful tered the English language was led to the colonisation of India. and richer than many nation ‘loot’. Fitting, in that the more In 2020, the biggest company into India was a states. powerful the company became, in Britain, grossing profits of mouthwatering The destiny of India became the more looting of wealth over 200 billion pounds, was prospect for tied with that of America. Most from the Indian subcontinent British Petroleum. (This is also a of us will be somewhat familiar increased. So much so that by good historic example of another this company, with the Boston Tea party in the early years of the 1800’s, HISTORY & British company’s manipula- as well as 1773. In protest to the tax status the British state wrested control tion to plunder Persia/Iranian individuals like British companies enjoyed over over the company’s influence POLITICS oil from a sovereign nation.) the colonists, they boycotted and thus began British state Despite these astronomical Robert Clive, British goods. In what was to be- control of India, which was to Kieran Doyle margins, it still only amounted who wanted come a signature statement, pa- last until Indian independence in to 0.6 per cent of the British to make his triotic colonists dumped 90,000 1947. By then, one of the richest total Gross Domestic Product tonnes of tea into the Boston countries in the world had been here was a tiny little (GDP refers to good and ser- fortune. Harbour, an amount worth one looted not just of wealth, but townland in County Clare vices within a country, and the million pounds in today’s prices. of human beings. One million called Ballykilty. In the greater they are usually reflects The tea was owned by none India soldiers died under arms of Tmiddle of the 18th century when the higher a living standard in other than the East Indian Com- their colonial masters in the two the landed aristocracy was in a country, from an ‘economic’ pany. When the Americas were world wars. the ascendency, a man, who had point of view). Walmart in the lost to Britain after the American Today, Chinese, Russian never set foot in Ireland, bought USA made a staggering 520 War of Independence in 1783, and American companies in extensive lands in the area. He billion dollars in revenue last the lucrative market in India particular, are the new invaders duly renamed his lands in that year, which still only amounted became even more important. across the world. The days of townland as ‘Plassey’. The man 2.4 per cent to the country’s By 1803, the EIC’s private army guns and mortar to pressurise in question was Robert Clive. GDP. In 2020, Volkswagen in had subdued most of the conti- sovereign states is coming to an This man would be the catalyst Germany sold one in every ten nent for it’s own enrichment. It end. Financial muscle is how for the beginning of the conquest cars globally, earning 296 billion more exotic and luxury goods Clive fought in Plassey in 1757, did not pretend it was building colonisation is done today. We of India – initiated by a trading euro. Its contribution to the that foreign companies could he was aided in part by his coun- an empire, spreading civiliza- have already become immune company he was employed Germany GDP was also only 2.4 supply. One of these companies try’s troops. Yet at this time, the tion, or teaching Christianity, to stadiums and sports teams by – the East India Company per cent. was the EIC. Textiles in particu- British had no designs on India, as was often the catch call of rebranded under the banner of (EIC). The battle that ushered in Now go back to the near- lar were making huge profits allowing the EIC increasing conquering European nations. their sponsors and paymasters. the dawn of British control over ly three centuries to Robert for the company. Under Mughal lucrative monopoly to dominate It was there for the money. The I wonder what the people of a subcontinent and millions of Clive in 1757 and imagine one control, a quarter of the globe’s the region while replacing the English language has also had Ballykilty would have thought people’s lives was indeed the company dwarfing all of the textiles were being produced defunct and decaying Mughal an appetite to plunder words of it all. battle of ‘Plassey’. It was Clive aforementioned. By the middle in India. European cities were Empire. When France lost the from the nations it conquered. who masterminded this victory of the eighteenth century the a long way off from having the Seven Years War, it left the EIC Dalrymple explains that one of with a small force but fashioned ‘East Indian Company’, was population and wealth of some with modern implements of war. responsible for about 16 per cent of the Mughal Indian cities. His assurance to the East Indian of Britain’s total GDP. To put Getting a foot into India was a Company directors in London it in context, just one company mouthwatering prospect for this was, ‘I can assert with some de- generated one million out of the company, as well as individuals gree of confidence that this rich eight million of Great Britain’s like Robert Clive, who wanted and flourishing kingdom can be total revenue in trade from to make his fortune. It came subdued by so small a force as everything else. This was also at no little risk, with 25 per 2,000 Europeans’. at a time when world markets, cent of Europeans succumbing What was astonishing about trade and commerce was only a annually to disease and fever. If the campaign was not just Clive GYRU SCREENING MB CRUSHER COMPACTORS fraction of what it is today. you could survive, huge profits and his troops defeated the BUCKET BUCKET The EIC began modestly in could be made, through trade, Islamic Mughals who had colo- London in 1599, when some deals, and manipulation. Clive, nised the region for themselves ambitious merchants and who made two fortunes in India, since the 16th century, but that it businessmen sought to find new earned the equivalent of four was done to preserve and protect markets now that new countries million pounds in his position the company’s trading rights and continents were discovered. in the EIC before coming away within India. William Dalrym- The colonies in America were a with tens of millions after the ple’s brilliant history book about ROCK BREAKERS SELECTOR GRAB great lore to people who sought battle of Plassey, which from the CONQUIP FORKS the rise of the East Indian Com- better lives, but as of then, had proceedings, he bought his Clare pany (EIC), illustrates the power CONTACT : JAMIE little in terms of enrichment. The property, one of many he would of formidable corporations, Block E, Aerodrome Business Park, Rathcoole, Co. Dublin, D24 DTR2 cutthroat Spanish Conquistadors own in the British Isles. 250 years before we had global 01 4016002 • 087 653 4289 • [email protected] had by then already plundered Fortune often comes with  dominance by the Amazons or Central America, bringing back good timing and Clive found Facebooks of our time. Despite billions in stolen wealth and himself getting state support some of those companies’ destroying ancient civilizations for his incursion into Plassey to influence over tax laws in many like the Aztecs in the process. further trade for the EIC. While nations, their influence pales into The Portuguese and the Dutch up to then, they had been at the significance with that of the EIC. were dominating the Spice mercy of the Mughals, they also In the 21st century, we read on Islands trade routes to Java, had been vying with the French a weekly basis the control that Sumatra and the areas we now who had trading posts in India. these massive corporations have call Indonesia. The British, yet When France and Great Britain on sovereign nations. The latest to emerge as the greatest sea locked horns in 1756, in what show of strength was displayed faring nation, dropped anchor in could be described as a world by the IOC (international Olym- India. At first, the modest EIC war, a global conflict lasted for pic Committee) – a profitable company had to play ball with seven years between these two corporation, whose dominance the aforementioned powerful nations. These colonisers fought is so strong that they have been Feel free to contact us to discuss your Mughal empire. Permission to each other across their spheres able to threaten and dictate trade had to be sought and under of influence from Canada to that the Olympics should go Life Assurance and Pension requirements no circumstances could they be the American colonies, to the ahead. This is despite millions seen to build fortifications or an- Caribbean and even to their trad- of Japanese civilians, as well ything that resembled permanent ing posts in India. The British Barrack Street, Bantry • (027) 52233 as the doctor and nurse unions, settlements. They were simply government, as of then had no declaring they don’t want to see Bridge Street, Dunmanway • (023) 8845185 meant to be trading posts. It was influence or role in India, but their country host this event in Bridge Street, Skibbereen • (028) 21272 the beginning of an age when were only too happy to support the middle of the raging Covid Europeans and their increasing the private armies of the EIC pandemic. Money talks. It does wealth, demanded more and with British soldiers. Thus when 14 July 2 – August 5, 2021 The cemetery gun the bodies of the corpses. Fights Set near the foot of the grave and pointing towards took place between surgeons who needed to procure bodies the head, the cemetary gun would have been trig- for dissection and the victims’ gered by a series of three or four tripwires extend- families who wanted to keep and ing in an arc pattern and encompassing the fresh bury the bodies of loved ones. In THE HISTORY 1740 Samuel Richardson wrote graves. of one battle he witnessed; & POLITICS “As soon as the poor creatures at executions and the difficulties ly-deceased loved ones. Those were half dead, I was much in obtaining the bodies became who could not afford the gun CORNER surprised before such a number more and more difficult, as cha- rental were at the mercy of the of peace officers to see the pop- Shane Daly os ensued, with people fighting body snatchers. Resurrection ulace fall to hauling and pulling for the corpses at every event. men evolved to meet this chal- the carcasses with so much ear- This led to a huge demand lenge. Some would send women Shane Daly is a History nestness as to occasion several upon being sentenced to death, A body begins to decompose for dead bodies. With that came posing as widows, carrying Graduate from University warring encounters and broken however, he cried when he immediately after death and cells the invention of bodysnatching. children and dressed in black, College Cork, with a BAM heads. These are the friends of was informed, his body after and tissue begin to break down Grave Robbers or ‘Resurrection to case the gravesites during the in History and an MA in Irish the persons executed and some execution, would be given to a in a process known as autolysis. Men’, as they became known, day and report the locations of History. persons sent by private surgeons surgeon for dissection. It is writ- During this time oxygen present would monitor funerals that cemetery guns and other defens- to obtain bodies for dissection. ten in historical evidence that, as in the body begins to deplete were taking place all over es. Cemetery keepers, in turn, The contests between these were he made his way to the gallows, creating an ideal environment Britain. This practice was also learned to wait to set the guns up fierce and bloody and frightful to he turned to the Constable and for the proliferation of anaer- “From about the middle of used in Europe and America. after dark, thereby preserving the look at.” asked “He, the murdered child, obic organisms in the gut and the 18th century it began to They would wait for the funeral element of surprise. One of the The public’s desire to see jus- is better off than I am now, do respiratory organs. Eventually be realized that you could to take place, make a note of the only known surviving examples tice did not necessarily include you not think so Sir?’ After the body begins to bloat and learn from a dead body; and burial site, and return under the of cemetery guns is on display a desire to see the criminal body his execution, his body was can cause ruptures in the skin as that’s when some families cover of darkness to remove the at The Museum of Mourning dissected. It was a common removed for dissection. gases escape. As time passes the were starting to be persuaded bodies from the coffin and take Art at the Arlington Cemetery belief at the time that after death Surgery in the 18th and 19th body begins to digest itself and that they should allow post it to the ‘dead house’ to sell to of Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania. the body should remain intact. centuries was an incredibly rudi- organs become liquefied. The mortems.” the awaiting surgeon. Unusually Museum curators date the gun Fears about what happened mentary practice. This was prior bodies would have been swollen, - Wendy Moore Resurrection Men would strip to 1710, making it one of the to the body after death were to the invention of antiseptic, leaking, and the smell of rotting the body naked because it was earliest models of cemetery extremely prominent in the 18th anaesthesia or antibiotics. Germ flesh would have permeated the n the 18th and 19th centuries illegal to steal possessions from guns. Part of its original rotating and 19th centuries. The idea theory had not been discovered surgical rooms. Insects, rats and medical and surgical students the corpse but not the body pedestal and three rings for of organs or body parts being yet, the job itself was filthy; the mice would have been present needed bodies to dissect. itself, as there was no concept of tripwire attachment are visible in removed, led to the possibility dissection rooms were known as in the dissection rooms; they are IThe rise in surgery’s popularity the body being property. They the photo of having to live without them in ‘death houses’ and were filthy. known to have been feeding on meant that there was a greater would throw the clothes and The ‘Anatomy Act’ of 1832 the afterlife and this was terribly In 1793, James Williams, a the cadavers. There are recorded demand for bodies to work on jewellery back into the grave was introduced in Britain, disconcerting for people and 16-year-old student, described journal entries of surgeons and study. However, at the time, after removing the corpse. The which meant the bodies of any cause genuine concern. Before his living quarters next to John feeding the rats and mice pieces it was only legal to dissect the process of bodysnatching was unclaimed poor people could the day of execution, the con- Hunter’s anatomy schools in a of the dead to keep them off the body of a convicted murder- highly lucrative and, because be used for dissection. It was demned went to great lengths to letter to his sister: tables. er. The ‘Murder Act’ of 1752 of its profitability, it became thought that this would reduce protect their bodies from being “My room has two beds in it Because surgeons were not decreed that the bodies of all widespread all over Britain. the trade of bodysnatching. It removed to the ‘dead house’, and in point of situation is not aware of germs yet and had murderers be dissected as an Resurrection Men could charge did. The late 1860s marked not which was the surgeon’s dis- the most pleasant in the world. no understanding of surgical additional punishment for the £10.50 per corpse. By compari- only the end of the Civil War, section table. They would write The dissecting room with half a hygiene, they didn’t wear gloves crimes they committed. Most son, the weekly wage of a master but also the heyday of body letters from jail and appeal to dozen dead bodies in it is imme- and often operated on cadavers of the bodies used for dissec- tailor or a carpenter in the same snatching. By the 1870s, cem- their families, friends, husbands diately above and that in which in their own casual, everyday tion were taken from Tyburn in period was £1.50; the body trade etery gun technology advanced and wives to organize a group of Mr. Hunter makes preparations clothes. This meant the blood London. Tyburn was the site of took off and the need to protect into what became known as people of some form of security is the next adjoining to it, so you and infectious diseases, as well execution since the 12th century. graves from body snatchers be- ‘Coffin Torpedoes’. These were to prevent their body being taken may conceive it to be a little per- as germs that fester in a decom- Locals called the permanent came a necessity for those who essentially very short-barrelled and anatomised by surgeons. fumed. There is a dead carcass posing body, would have been scaffold there, ‘The Deadly could afford it. The ‘cemetery shotguns mounted inside the Martin Grey begged his uncle just at this moment rumbling up all over their clothing, which Nevergreen’, as it was the tree gun’ was invented to prevent the coffin lid and triggered by the to come and be present at his the stairs and the resurrection wasn’t washed, and which they that bore fruit all year long. theft of bodies. raising of the lid. Success must execution in 1721 to prevent men swearing most terribly. I am wore home where they prepared Between 1169, which was the To combat the problem, have been limited because they his body from ‘being cut and informed this will be the case meals and went about their daily year the first recorded hanging creative cemetery workers fash- quickly gave rise to ‘Grave Tor- torn and mangled after death’. most mornings at about four lives! took place, and 1783, when the ioned what is known as the first pedoes’, which were not really Children were also hanged for o’clock throughout the winter.” The death rate of surgeons executions were moved to New- ‘cemetery gun’, a flintlock pistol, firearms at all, but rather small murder and on July 29, 1831, Dissecting was considered a was extremely high due to gate prison, an estimated 60,000 mounted on a rotating base and explosives packed with black John Amy Birdbell, age 14, was winter sport, and the bodies, if infection. There are many people died at Tyburn. stand, which would allow it to powder and ignited by percus- convicted of robbing a young they had not been operated on recorded cases of surgeons dying When the ‘Murder Act’ was swing freely. Set near the foot of sion caps. The torpedoes would boy of his money and murdering the day of the corpse’s execu- within 48 hours of cutting their passed Tyburn became a battle- the grave and pointing towards rest either atop or just inside the him. At his trial, it is recorded tion, were often already at an ad- finger during a dissection, as ground where people fought for the head, the gun would have coffin lid. When disturbed, the that John showed no emotion vanced state of decomposition. the wound would be infected almost immediately. Antibiotics been triggered by a series of explosive would detonate into had not been discovered yet. So three or four tripwires extending the face of unsuspecting diggers. death was almost guaranteed. In in an arc pattern and encompass- The ‘Anatomy Act’ of Proposed Bandon works much needed 1788 a young medical student ing the fresh grave. Unsuspect- 1832 was unsuccessful in its cut his finger while dissecting ing thieves, working under cover attempt to stifle the rise of and long overdue: O’Sullivan the dead body of a child. A few of darkness, would presumably body snatching, however, the hours later he began suffering not notice the tripwires, stumble aforementioned methods were proposed €2M over- cycleway and walkway “Bandon is strategically from headaches and later began upon them, and meet their own a successful deterrent and the haul for the approach stretching close to the start of located in West Cork. It’s to haemorrhage. Within 24 hours demise, or at least get a dose of trade rapidly declined. While road into Bandon the Claire O’Leary Walk. one of the first towns people he was dead. His name was lead. Though it is not clearly grave robbery of valuables still documented whether the guns occurs on occasion today, body Afrom Innishannon, which will “The proposed plan is encounter when visiting, and Charles Darwin: The uncle of actually worked, it would be safe snatching has faded into the include a cycleway, is long the most substantial in terms it has so much potential. The the now famous evolutionary to expect they were at least a annals of history. Undoubtedly, overdue, Cork South West of public amenity works in eastern entrance into the town biologist of the same name. With great deterrent if not a truly fatal there are some coffin torpedoes Deputy Christopher O’Sulli- Bandon in years. I have been certainly needs some attention, the high death rate and the need tool of defense. still locked and loaded in many van says. asking for updates on the so this is great news. A cycle- for improvement in surgeon’s There are accounts from undisturbed 18th and 19th The proposed project will proposal in the Dail, so it’s way connecting to the Graham skills, as well as surgical around the US of these guns centuries graves now in the see 1.6km resurfaced from the fantastic to see news that it Norton Riverwalk will be practices, the demand for bodies increased. By the 19th century being available for either rent 21st century, although, with the Kevin O’Leary roundabout, is moving forward,” Deputy great attraction for people or purchase by families who passing of time, they are unlikely with a 3.5m wide combined O’Sullivan said. travelling to the area.” demand for bodies was extraor- dinarily high. Acquiring bodies wished to protect their recent- to detonate. July 2 – August 5, 2021 15 Bóthar Reibiliunach – Rebel Road here is a short stretch Macroom, the first indication of distance apart, fly the green of road, some 6km, past conflict is a small plaque 1916 Irish Republic flags; they between Macroom and embedded in a rock that com- mark the points where the IRA TBallyvourney that is known as memorates ‘The Slippery Rock placed two Lewis machine guns ‘The Rebel Road’ due to the Ambush’ of August 17, 1920, during a pivotal engagement not insignificant number of IRA during which the local IRA known as ‘The Coolavokig memorials dotted along it. Soon company ambushed a cycle pa- Ambush’. A stone memorial to be bypassed by the new Mac- trol of the dreaded Auxiliaries. stands at the side of the road room Bypass, Pauline Murphy At first the ambushers stood to further commemorate when feels this historical stretch of up from their positions, identi- 60 IRA Volunteers ambushed road deserves a mention. fied themselves and ordered the 70 Auxiliaries on February 25, The long-awaited Macroom ‘auxies’ to lay down their arms. 1921. and Ballyvourney by-pass is When the enemy refused, a The Auxiliaries knew about Plaque at Slippery Rock. Coolavokig memorial. currently under construction and gun fight broke out, resulting in the intended ambush and when the first vehicles take to the death of British Lieutenant travelled into it heavily armed its tar, the N22 will be reduced Sharman and the wounding of and with civilian hostages in On September 5, a number of A broken down lorry was a to a secondary route. What several of his men. The British eight lorries. The so-called ‘hill local children came upon what device commonly used by the cannot be reduced however, is held an inquest following the tribes’ put up fierce resistance looked like a broken down Brit- British military to trick people. Liam Hegarty memorial. the amount of history connected ambush where one officer called and, after a four-hour fight, ish military lorry, which piqued It was called ‘The Q’ after WWI with this stretch of road. the IRA ‘The Hill Tribes!’ the ‘auxies’ retreated, with at their curiosity. vessels that were disguised as to see what the commotion was, Between Macroom and IRA Volunteer Micheal least four of their number dead. Local IRA leader Liam fishing boats to sink German and was killed by a volley from Ballyvourney the terrain turns O’Suilleabhain recounted the There were no casualties on Hegarty was passing on his bike U-boats. the machine gun as it tore up the rough and rugged; the me- ambush in his memoir ‘Where the IRA side, even though they when he recognised two of the Hegarty managed to stagger surrounding ditches and road. andering road winds through Mountainy Men Have Sown’ – were lightly armed with just children as his younger siblings to the ditch across the road Thankfully 100 years on, the a landscape that is ideal for a guide to the rich tradition of two Lewis machine guns and and told them all to run away before slumping into it. He was rebel road is free of conflict – guerrilla warfare and 100 years resistance in Múscraí. inadequate rifles. home. As the kids scattered, shot again by the soldiers before the only battles fought there ago it witnessed its fair share of Back on the N22, west under Before entering Ballyma- Hegarty inspected the lorry for they drove off. now are traffic-related! action, in the War of Independ- tall trees and brooding hills, keera, a stone cross at the side himself; he lifted the bonnet and When the shooting broke out, ence. flags fly high on a rocky out- of the road marks the site of a was met by a volley of machine 21-year-old Michael Lynch, Heading westwards from crop. Two tall flagpoles, some deadly Sunday evening in 1920. gunfire. who lived nearby, had run out

Heritage Trail launched for twin villages of Ballineen and Enniskeane

he Mayor of the County Council, I would like to of Cork Cllr. Mary congratulate Ballineen and Linehan Foley paid a Enniskeane Tidy Towns Asso- Tvisit to the twin West Cork ciation for their hard work and villages of Ballineen and En- dedication in bringing this pro- niskeane recently to launch the ject to fruition. We’re delighted new Heritage Trail, created by to support this initiative, which the Ballineen and Enniskeane will have both a positive Tidy Towns Association, tak- impact on quality of life here ing in several sites on the Trail and on the local economy as and the much-admired Biodi- our businesses strive to bounce versity and Sensory Riverside back.” Garden during the visit. Chairperson of Ballineen Speaking at the launch, and Enniskeane Tidy Towns Mayor Linehan Foley praised Association, Margaret O’Do- the work, commitment and novan, said, “We envisage the Pictured is The Mayor of the County of Cork, Cllr. Mary Linehan Foley meeting with members of Ballineen and Enniskeane dedication of Ballineen and creation and positioning of the Tidy Towns Association to view the new Heritage Trail and Riverside Gardens with Cllr. Deirdre Kelly and Margaret Enniskeane Tidy Towns Heritage Trail and Walking O’Donovan, Chairperson Tidy Towns Committee. Pic: Denis Boyle Association volunteers, saying: Trail Boards throughout the “The pride that the people of villages will serve to encour- regeneration and enhancement Ballineen and Enniskeane take age local and wider-scale tour- of the villages, we sought to Glengarriff Tourism and Development Assoc in their community is evident ism and assist in the economic erect wall plaques, information today, on Courthouse Plaza, sustainability of local small boards and finger-post signs The Glengarriff Tourism and Development Association has been busy along the Heritage Trail and in businesses. This is particularly to document this historical preparing for the summer season ahead. Several new fairy houses have the beautiful Riverside Garden. pertinent as we navigate the tapestry. been installed along the fairy trail that have been admired by locals and visitors alike. See them for yourself along the Shoreside Trail between Giving generously of their exigencies of the ‘new needs’ “This vision could not the Blue Pool and the Pier. time and energy, Tidy Town of the ‘new normal’ as part become a reality, however, There has been a great surge in following and interaction on the Visit volunteers take action each of our ‘Survive and Thrive’ without the support of Cork Glengarriff social media pages, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Please day, great and small, to im- proposal for the current and County Council, who came on remember to use the tag #visitglengarriff on all your social media prove their local environment post-pandemic social, eco- board to finance all aspects of posts and photos. Work is also ongoing on the new Visit Glengarriff and it shows. nomic and cultural landscapes. the project, thereby enabling website. The GTDA are seeking members to sign up and submit their “On behalf of Cork County In line with our vision for the our ideas to come to fruition.” business details for inclusion. 16 July 2 – August 5, 2021 Historical nuggets: Cromwell’s Bridge, Glengarriff he picturesque Crom- Folklore pertaining to the was erected”. bridge is also known as Kea- well’s Bridge in name of the bridge abounds. While the bridge likely dates magower, from the Irish ‘Céim Glengarriff has attracted In 1839 Cork antiquarian John to the 17th century and may an Ghabhair’ meaning ‘goat’s Tmuch attention from artists and Windele stated the following: have been contemporaneous leap’. photographers since the early “Tradition says, that on the with the period of the Crom- Opposite is a lesser-known 19th century, with many works approach of Cromwell, on his wellian conquest, the name drawing of Cromwell’s Bridge of art depicting the bridge in way to Berehaven, the natives probably has nothing to do with in Glengarriff, which appeared varying stages of ruin, and with broke down the bridge in order him or his army. It has been in 1852 in the ‘Irish Tourist’s Il- differing numbers of semicircu- to impede his progress, but he suggested instead that the name lustrated Handbook for Visitors lar arches. Today only a single compelled them again to rebuild of this bridge, surrounded as to Ireland’. arch survives, extending from it; and thus has it since retained it is by woodland, more likely the south bank of the river to- his name, as has also the ford evokes the Irish ‘crom choill’ wards the centre of the channel. ‘Ath Cromwell’, over which it meaning ‘sloping wood’. The €450,000 Cultural Boost for Clonakilty 1798 West Cork Islands Commemoration aturday, June 19 was ration fluttered at Asna Square the 223rd anniversary to remind the public of this of ‘The Battle of the important date in Clonakilty Ardnakinna Lighthouse, Bere Island SBig Cross’, which is thought and West Cork local history. Pic: Joleen Cronin to have been the only military engagement in the whole of Munster during 1798. It took place just north of Shannon- vale – about two miles from Clonakilty town on what was then the main road to Bandon. An estimated 300 local Unit- ed Irishmen under the leader- ship of Tadhg Ó Donnabháin Asna ambushed approximately 100 Westmeath Militia (Crown Forces), under the command of Sir Hugh O’Reilly, as they were transferring to Bandon. After the huge bicentenary commemorative events in 1998, a simple, non-political commemoration has been held at the statue to Tadhg an Asna at Asna Square every year since. It was organised by the UDC/Town Council up to 2013 but then that body was abolished in May 2014. Local historical group, Dúchas Clonakilty Heritage decided to continue it, and kept est Cork and it’s sev- communities are very important Arts Centre. in remote and rural island and the tradition of the Town May- en Island communi- to us in Cork County Council. The programme’s ambitions coastal environments.” or laying a wreath. This did ties are set to benefit Although, our Islands may be include strengthening the inter- Aisling Moran, Community not happen last year due to the Wfrom a three-year €450,000 subject to certain economic connectedness of the islands, Development Co-ordinator with pandemic but on June 19 last, programme to develop and sus- pressures and are more remote supporting creative community Sherkin Island Development a scaled down, non-advertised tain new creative opportunities in terms of geography, they are engagement with climate ad- Society noted that, “This fund- event was held when Mayor for all age groups, through the also innovative and resilient. aptation and digital technology ing will build skills, create links Anthony McDermott laid Arts Council’s ‘Creative Places The Arts Council’s commitment and giving expression to what both inter island and inter-gen- the traditional wreath. There Clonakilty Mayor Anthony Programme’. to sustain investment through it is to be an islander focusing erational. It will bring us all were no speeches in order to McDermott at the statue to ‘The Creative Places, West the Creative Places Scheme on the lived experience of together to have the opportunity comply with the current Covid Tadhg Ó Donnabháin Asna Cork Islands’ programme is over a three-year period will inhabitants, which is governed to create something new and regulations. before he laid the wreath to an innovative development allow the necessary time to to a large extent by nature, tides, exciting. The West Cork Islands Throughout Saturday a mark the 223rd anniversary and community engagement develop and deliver a range of weather and climate change. have a lot to offer and we are commemorative flag from the of ‘The Battle of the Big project that will be rolled out initiatives to support sustainable Ann Davoren , Director at looking forward to learning, 1998 bicentenary commemo- Cross’. Pic: CÓS over a three-year period on Bere artist and community engage- Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre creating and sharing this project Island, Dursey Island, Whiddy ment on each of these islands. said ,“As an organisation con- with everyone. We are very Island, Heir Island, Long Island, Cork County Council has un- cerned with the development of grateful to the Arts Council Oilean Chleire and Sherkin dertaken a considerable amount the arts in rural areas, and with and Cork County Council for Cork Islands have been chosen support through this long-term Island. The programme aims to of Arts development work in issues of access to, and partici- supporting the application.” to be a ‘Creative Place’, investment, which gives recog- strengthen existing local con- West Cork and on the islands pation in, the arts for all sectors A key part of this programme “This project has the potential nition to the work that has been temporary and traditional arts and this ‘Creative Places’ award of society, Uillinn: West Cork will be creating opportunities to make the islands off West ongoing to develop the West practice and create long-term will enable us to work with our Arts Centre is delighted to be a for artists and communities to Cork creative places for our Cork Islands as centres of arts community-led engagement in local partners to bring this work key partner in Creative Places: work together through socially communities and for national and culture. As a partner in this the arts. to an entirely new level.” The West Cork Islands. The engaged practice that positively and international artists. We project I feel that it will provide Reacting to the announce- Cork County Council is head- project is focused on building impacts on islanders’ ongoing look forward to working with a wonderful range of opportu- ment, Mayor of the County of ing a consortium of local arts capacity in the arts, in socially cultural participation and the our other partners and the nities for community participa- Cork, Cllr. Gillian Coughlan and development agencies that engaged practice, in extending preservation and promotion of County Council on this exciting tion in the development of arts said,“We are delighted to includes Bere Island Projects the range of, and embedding, unique island cultures. development” infrastructure for the future.” receive a ‘Creative Places’ Group, Sherkin Island Develop- creative opportunities for island John Walsh Manager of Bere Máirtín Ó Méalóid, Bainis- For further information, con- designation for West Cork and ment Society, Comharchumann communities and in so doing, to Island Projects Group expressed teoir, Comharchumann Chléire tact Cork County Council’s Arts its inhabited Islands. Our island Chléire and Uillinn: West Cork underpin the capacity for living his delight to hear that the West Teoranta said,“We welcome the Office at [email protected] July 2 – August 5, 2021 17

edged that the sector needs control plan, for example, is Taoiseach and help. Let’s hope this is the start forcing the sector to weigh their of something that will lead to a fish on the pier instead of in a fairer and better deal for all of factory,” Deputy O’Sullivan O’Sullivan visit Ireland’s fishing fleet.” said. Deputy O’Sullivan said “In-factory weighing was Castletownbere and the three central issues up for traceable, it was accurate and it discussion were 1) the fact that was transparent. Weighing fish the Irish fishing fleet is not outside on the pier is having a Unionhall to meet getting it’s fair share of the EU huge impact on fish quality,” fishing co-op, John Nolan, and whose livelihoods have been fishing quota, 2) the removal he said. fishing representatives CEO of the Irish South and severely impacted by recent of the control plan and 3) the Later that week, Deputy West Fish Producers Organ- events. It meant a lot to the enormous impact COVID has O’Sullivan joined demon- aoiseach Micheál Martin last weekend (June 20) to hear isation, Patrick Murphy, and representatives and myself that had on the inshore sector and strators who helmed a fleet of and Cork South West and discuss the severe challeng- other fishing representatives as he accepted my invitation to see the price of fish such as ground boats, which sailed to Dublin to Deputy Christopher es the industry is facing in light well as members of the inshore for himself what’s happening crab, which has led to huge highlight the importance of and TO’Sullivan met with fishing of Brexit. fishing sector, NIFA. on our fishing piers,” Deputy financial losses. struggle being faced by the Irish industry representatives in The pair met with managing “I wanted the Taoiseach O’Sullivan said. “They’re facing enormous fishing industry. Castletownbere and Unionhall director of the Castletownbere to hear firsthand from people “The Taoiseach acknowl- challenges. The removal of the Six business women achieve Network Ireland West Cork Awards ix West Cork women have business received the Power for her role as a talent marketing When you believe and have a judging panel, Vicki Crean, AIB, award recipients. We wish each been lauded for their suc- Within Award. STEM award specialist with experience across solid network of support around Deirdre O’Shaughnessy, Irish of our winners the very best of cess at the fourth annual recipient was Jacinta Collins, communications, online market- you like that of Network Ireland Examiner, Peter Coppinger, luck as they go forward to rep- SNetwork Ireland West Cork Argideen Communications, who ing, recruitment marketing and West Cork then anything is Teamwork and Sean Mahon, resent West Cork at the national Businesswoman of the Year has been championing science employer branding. possible. Southern Star Media, for their finals in October.” Awards. The award ceremony, for 25 years using her communi- The winners now progress to I sincerely thank our esteemed time and care in choosing the which was held virtually on June cations training to help scientists the national Businesswoman of 24 with guest speaker Louise and science-led companies bring the Year Awards on October 8 in O’Neill, celebrated each of the their research and innovation WIT Arena, Waterford. 24 finalists which highlight to life. Speaking of the winners, Net- women from a variety of busi- The Creative Professional work Ireland West Cork Presi- ness backgrounds. award went to Maura O’Connell dent, Katherine O’Sullivan said, Among the winners was of West Cork Casting Studio “‘With all that has happened Tara Copplestone of Foxglove who specialises in honouring in the last year-and-a-half, Cocktails who won the award and preserving family memories achieving business success has for Emerging New Business by creating bespoke life-cast been trying yet these women are Owner. Copplestone set up pieces and personal fingerprint proof that we can still triumph to Foxglove Cocktails last spring and handprint jewellery. overcome all obstacles. From es- when she returned home from The award for Established tablished businesses finding new New York to see out lockdown. Business Owner went to Nollaig ways to do business to new start- However, a prolonged stay led Hurley, Jelly Fish Surf Shop ups, and employees meeting new her to founding Foxglove Cock- in Spiller’s Lane, Clonakilty challenges in their workplace, tails with her brother. Today, who opened her business 18 our finalists went through it all. Foxglove Cocktails retails online years ago based on her hobby of The variety of women from a and delivers all over Ireland as surfing. Since then she has built broad spectrum of backgrounds well as selling at local markets the business to be one of top pur- is proof that West Cork is a throughout Cork. veyors of surfing goods, serving thriving place to work and run Network Ireland West Cork President Katherine O’Sullivan, with the 2021 West Cork Yvonne Cahalane, constituen- customers all over Ireland. a business from. Each woman Branch Business Women of the Year Award Winners, Awards Co-0rdinator Marie Wiseman, cy secretary for Fine Gael Cork Marketing expert with VM- has shown us that it is possible keynote speaker celebrated author Louise O’Neill, MC Ciara Wilson and Sheila McCarthy - South West, avid volunteer ware Louise Bunyan took the to make great things happen AIB official sponsor at the Award Reception at Bantry House. and founder of a new a startup Employee Shining Star award regardless of external factors.

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(L-R) Ardfield NS Third Class pupils Ella Haughney, Oisín Griffin & Réidín Geaney Dunmanway man Nathan Kingston completed a 24 hour fast on Good Friday this year to enjoying their ice cream treat after recently winning a Clonakilty Credit Union competition. raise over €2,000 in sponsorship for The Pediatric Cystic Fibrosis Ward at Cork University Hospital which he handed over to the hospital last month. 18 July 2 – August 5, 2021 people Farming Brexit chickens come home to roost

get my calving spread tightened the back of his hand. It was the up a bit. same sector but worlds apart. I had a first in my farming Two weeks later I was in career recently. From the middle Skibbereen mart and got chatting of April to the second of June, to a farmer there, who told me: I spread no bagged fertiliser. It “I’d like to buy a bullockeen.” was more to do with weather It’s not to be dismissive of that and circumstance than a planned farmer’s mission at that sale but event and whether that move the phrase etched in my head comes back to bite me at a later as a contrast in scale between date is to be seen but you have to here and our new competition. try things out. A positive for us is that the fact FARMING Grass covers are where I want it could be 15 years before they them and silage is up-to-date so have full tariff-free access allow- IN WEST CORK it looks like slurry and clover ing time to get our act together. kept the show on the road. Their beef sector appeared more Tommy Moyles I lost track of how many times focused and united than ours. a day I would check the weather An improvement in the weather situation is welcomed by farmers in west Cork. Pic: Tommy Moyles British farmers were assured app on my phone, waiting for that the Australians wouldn’t In his farming diary, West Cork measures aimed at trying to im- farmers’ unreal expectations ities got the better of me and I a window to get silage cut. compete against them. Their tar- suckler farmer and columnist prove the overall environment. don’t help matters. ended up visiting Roma sales Thankfully we’re past the half- gets were the countries exporting with the Irish Farmers Journal, Like most things in agriculture In general, all seems a bit yard in Queensland. It’s the larg- way mark in terms of our fodder beef to the UK. Currently almost Tommy Moyles covers the lay it will take time for the results more pleasant on farm than in est sales centre down under and requirement. In early May con- 80 per cent of the beef imported of the land across all agri and to filter through. That can be a the greater political world that is capable of handling 14,000 ditions were too cold, and I was into the UK is from the Republic farming enterprises – news, challenge in a social media-dom- influences what happens on the head of cattle in one sale. I at- wondering if grass would kick of Ireland. Brexit pits us against views and people in farming inated world where everyone ground. tended two auctions that week; a off properly. Conditions have the major protein producers ei- expects instant results. The first of the chickens store one, with 8,000 cattle sold across West Cork and further been very favourable for grass ther side of the southern Pacific. You could argue that there Brexit hatched are coming home in six hours, and a fat cattle sale afield. growth now with plenty of heat Post-Brexit trade deals could was a bit too much moisture to roost following the agreement of 880 head that was finished in and moisture. t has hit the stage have a larger on-farm impact In association in June, as it has proved very of a trade deal between the UK 75 minutes. There were 20 to 30 that I’ve taken out a few extra here than the CAP talks. with difficult to get silage cut. I don’t and Australia. Of particular buyers the first day and fewer paddocks for grazing to keep Speaking of CAP talks, they recall a full dry week over the concern to Irish farmers is the than 10 the second. They stalked things in check. were to be concluded at the end last six weeks. It’s a marked con- access this gives to Australian the canopy-covered passageways In late June, I had my initial of May. Agreement couldn’t be trast to other parts of the country beef and lamb in particular. This in the dust, barely having time farm visit, as part of the ASSAP reached on the final details so n farm it’s been a busy where some farmers require could open the door to a string to lean on a gate as auctioneers (Agricultural Sustainability Sup- they are scheduled to re-com- month. Breeding is rain and some have resorted to of other deals providing serious on catwalks overhead sold large port and Advisory Programme), mence at the end of June. With finished for the heifers grazing some of their planned competition for Irish livestock numbers in seconds. Bids were a free advisory service aimed so many other variables up in Oand they will be scanned to see if second cut silage farmers. in c/kg and cattle were weighed at improving water quality. It the air it would be good to get they are in-calf in a month’s time I’m hearing reports of some If it does, we’ll have to think after. involved an advisor coming on some clarity on issues affecting or so. The bull that was with farmers having more patience a bit differently on how we do You knew your stuff or you farm and looking at any water farming that would allow us to them is now with the main group than others with regard getting things on farm, particularly if left with nothing. It was a pro- courses and slurry and effluent plan ahead. Here’s hoping that of cows who have just complet- fodder in. Contractors are well we have to compete with global fessional’s game. An agent could control measure, and afterwards will happen. ed three weeks of AI. He’ll stay aware of the challenge in getting prices. have 50 or more cattle bought highlighting areas for improve- with them for at least a month silage cut this year and are under I was in Australia four years in the time it took an Irish mart ment. It’s one of a number of but will be removed, as I want to enough pressure to do so. Some ago and my agriculture curios- goer to write the lot number on

A West Cork Farming Life by Tommy Moyles Siblings John, Clodagh It’s rare to see so many sib- After months of planning lings have an involvement on and market research, we began and Eoin Lynch are the farm. Did you all always selling our first batch of 7kg beef selling boxed beef have an interest in the farm? boxes in February 2021. Each directly from their farm From a young age, we spent our box contains a selection of both free time helping on the farm prime and household cuts of at Ballylickey. where our interest in agriculture meat, which gives the consumer and food was born. We’d all a variety of options to choose Tell us about your farm? have an ag or food connection in from. The Lynch family have been college too. John studied a BSc. farming in Droumdaniel for over Food Science in UCC, Clodagh Why choose those breeds in 100 years. Farming has evolved is currently studying Food particular? a lot over that time: Milk quota Marketing and Entrepreneurship These days, environmental at the time limited our options in UCC while Eoin, a graduate and sustainability issues have in dairy farming so, in 2004, the of BSc. Instrument Engineering become a hot topic, particularly decision was made to transition from CIT has recently completed in relation to beef farming. As as from a mixed beef and dairy his Certificate in Agriculture a result there has been renewed farm to a full-scale pedigree beef through Clonakilty Agricultural interest in the Hereford and farm. College. Angus breeds with their early Eoin, Clodagh and John Lynch with their father Gene. Our farm consists of about maturity and ability to finish 150 acres, located in the heart Why did you start selling your economically with low input. We Hereford and Angus beef is flavour of the meat. Dry ageing and Sheep’s Head Peninsulas. of beautiful Ballylickey on the beef directly to consumers? have been producing both breeds genetically superior to the other improves the eating quality of Part of the land that our cattle shores of Bantry bay. We breed In recent years we were frustrat- on our family farm for almost breeds on the market as a source the beef by deepening its flavour graze is located alongside the pedigree Hereford and Angus ed that the factory prices don’t 40 years. Their beef is renowned of this. and improving its texture. water’s edge. That helps keep cattle under the Droumdaniel reflect the quality of the beef we globally for its superior flavour the land a bit warmer during prefix. These two breeds are produce. So we began to explore and tenderness. One of the key Do you do the butchering What are the positives about colder weather too. The people world-renowned for their high marketing our own beef directly characteristics of their meat yourselves? farming in West Cork? of West Cork have been very level of intramuscular fat, to the end consumer. We saw the is a high degree of marbling. No, we use a local craft butcher. We’re lucky to be located in one supportive to date and have real- tenderness and flavour. The herd potential for high quality, fully This is flecks of intramuscular They dry age the beef for 21 of the most scenic parts of the ly helped get our business off the consists of over 40 pedigree traceable, Hereford and Angus fat that are visible throughout days. This allows the natural country. Our cattle graze along ground. There is great satisfac- Hereford and Angus cows, and beef, which guarantees excep- the various cuts, which provide enzymatic and biochemical pro- the shores of Bantry Bay with tion in seeing where our beef is we run about 130 cattle in total. tional marbling and wonderful enhanced flavour, juiciness cesses to take place that result views of Whiddy Island, the going and having something to flavour. adding a succulence to the meat. in the improved tenderness and Caha Mountains and the Beara show for the work involved. July 2 – August 5, 2021 19 OUT & ABOUT IN WEST CORK Cllr. Gillian Coughlan elected as Send your photos (with captions) to [email protected] Mayor of the County of Cork

illian Coughlan, Council- accelerated through Project ACT. lor for the Bandon Kinsale Social and economic recovery Municipal District (MD), will benefit immensely from Ghas been elected to the office of collaboration between the Council, Mayor of the County of Cork. businesses and volunteers, and I Her election follows a long career greatly look forward to meeting working with her local community people Countywide who give their and representing the people of time to enhancing their locales. Bandon in Bandon Town Council By ensuring that each town and and later the people of Bandon village puts its best foot forward, Kinsale MD in Cork County our towns and villages will emerge Council. as great places for travel, business After completing a degree in and great places to live.” History and Political Science in Other priorities for Mayor Trinity College, Dublin, Mayor Coughlan include the provision Coughlan returned to UCC to of affordable housing schemes, undertake the Higher Diploma in climate adaptation and mitigation Education, completing her training that her initial priority will be to and supporting heritage work in at her alma mater in Bandon and support the people and businesses the County. subsequently teaching History and of Cork County as Ireland emerges “I’m also looking forward to CSPE in Colaiste an Phiarsaigh, from the pandemic. Recognis- working alongside Cork County Gleann Maghair, trí mhéan na ing that lockdowns have been Council in advancing digitisation Gaeilge. very difficult on people socially, and education programmes such In her tenure in Bandon Town psychologically, emotionally as those run through the Council’s Council, after she was first and financially Mayor Coughlan Local Enterprise Offices and Pictured is The Mayor of the County of Cork, Cllr. Mary Linehan Foley with Emma McCarthy and elected in 2009, Mayor Coughlan highlighted how, “There has been Library Services.” Lucy O’Neill from St. Marys NS who showed her around the riverside gardens during her visit to view worked with her fellow repre- an incredible show of resilience A native and resident of Bandon the new Heritage Trail and Riverside Gardens in Ballineen and Enniskeane. Pic Denis Boyle sentatives to secure funding for and solidarity in all sectors of with her husband Donough the Bandon Flood Relief project society in Cork County, and Cork Coughlan, and their three children, and the Bandon Water Main and County Council together with the Aidan, Maeve and Ronan, Mayor Sewage Scheme in response to the county’s voluntary and statutory Coughlan has been involved in devastating flooding experienced agencies have played a vital role many community groups including in the town. Having been co-opted in supporting people. It is essential Bandon Walled Town, Irish Red to Cork County Council in 2016, that as we move forward together, Cross, Age Friendly Bandon, Mayor Coughlan went on to top we don’t leave anyone behind.” Bandon 1916 Commemoration the poll in the Bandon Kinsale “I also look forward to the con- Committee and is the current Municipal District in the 2019 tinued town and village renewal Cathaoirleach of Gaelscoil Dhroic- Local Elections. and regeneration which has been head na Banndan. Mayor Coughlan has stated

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Many would see prisoner shooting. which tells the story the inside of Spike Islands Commenting on the new Aof the 1921 prisoners held on notorious fortress, which had exhibition, Mayor Linehan Spike Island during Ireland’s been used as a prison during the Foley said “It is wonderful to War of Independence, was time of Oliver Cromwell, and see the lives of these individuals opened last month by Mayor of again during the famine years, remembered and retold, in their the County of Cork, Cllr Mary when the fort became the largest own words. The exhibition Linehan Foley. known prison in the world, with provides fascinating insight The exhibition, which 2300 convicts. into the minds of these often is funded by Cork County The exhibition contains young individuals, who were Council’s Commemorations a number of new artefacts under tremendous pressure and Committee and the Department donated by the families of the danger, fighting for a cause they of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gael- men held on the island. These believed in”. tacht, Sport and media, tells the include coins shaped into badg- The exhibition is the culmina- available to see on the island, role in that journey. sially retained by the British story of the 1200 men held on es and pins, prisoner carved tion of over a decade of research searchable by name, county, tri- Spike Island was used to until 1938. Winston Churchill, the island for their Republican wooden artefacts, and there are by the island heritage team, al and other details. A new book train British troops in the early who visited Cork Harbour in activities in 1921. several diaries and autograph and in particular historian Tom by Mr O’Neill, Spike Island Re- years of World War one, and the 1912, proclaimed the forts ‘the Ireland was engaged in books kept by the men. These O’Neill who has worked on the publican Prisoners, 1921, is just crew of the gunrunning ship the sentinel towers of the defences a bloody struggle for inde- detail what life was like for the island since the 1990s. Regu- set to be launched, published by Aud were held there during the of Western Europe’, and fought pendence, and common law prisoners and internees, and lar enquires about the lives of The History Press, and will be failed attempt to arm the Easter tooth and nail to retain them in completely broke down in the share their feelings towards the the men held on the island in available on the island. Rising. Organisers Austin Stack 1921, and again in 1938. He six counties of Munster and struggle, their incarceration and 1921 led Mr O’Neill to begin The exhibition ‘Imprisoning and Con Collins were also held was unsuccessful on the second Wexford and Kilkenny. The daily life. researching the details of the a Nation’ will run until the end on the island. The island’s use occasion, and Spike Island situation was so bad that the A stunning and fortunate new men held on the island, which of 2021 before it will join the as a prison in 1921 is now well returned to Irish control in a cer- British authorities declared find was an old audio cassette is kept in locations like Dublin island’s permanent ‘Independ- documented, and the island emony held on July 11, 1938. Martial Law, or Military Law, recording, made in the 1980s, and London. After ten years ence’ exhibition, which details was an intrinsic part of the Spike Island tickets on sale to restore order. Thousands of 1921 Spike Island internee of research, the names and the road to Irish freedom from Treaty negotiations as one of from www.spikeislandcork.ie were arrested and convicted of Jeremiah Herlihy, who details imprisonment details of 99 per 1914 to 1922, and the islands three ‘Treaty Ports’, controver- ‘levying war against the King’, daily life in the prison, and cent of the 1200 rebels are now

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For good fun, great value and a warm West Cork welcome contact us today to book! 086 2679646 / 087 833 1206 | [email protected] 22 July 2 – August 5, 2021 Cork Gaa Clubs unite to raffle house in West Cork hree of Cork’s top GAA pandemic, with few properties could make, it could be a young clubs have joined forces remaining on the market for couple or a family’s forever to offer one lucky winner long. home. You wouldn’t think twice Tthe ultimate prize – a brand St James’ Club Chairperson, about spending €100 on a new home in Clonakilty. The Niall O’ Sullivan says: “We concert ticket, instead you could #WinAGaff competition is realise how lucky we are to be win the home of your dreams part of a fundraising initiative situated in such a picturesque in Clonakilty. You will also on behalf of Douglas GAA, St part of West Cork. Imagine, be helping three local sports James’ GAA and Fermoy GAA, this time next year you could clubs support and invest in the with funds being distributed to be living here, just minutes next generation of players. In develop facilities at each for all from some of the most beautiful Douglas, our goal is to have the age levels. beaches in the world. There best of facilities for our 3,000 The ‘gaff’ in question is a is already great excitement at members. We’re currently brand new 3-bedroom, semi-de- our club about handing over developing a three year plan tached, A-rated home at The the keys to a brand new home with the aim of investing in Miles, Clonakilty with a value in Clonakilty to our lucky an astro playing surface, a ball of over €300,000. Tickets for winner. The money raised will €100, but a maximum of members as the local population Other prizes include a Toy- wall, flood lighting and a games the draw are being sold with have a positive impact on our 10,000 tickets are being put up increases and as part of that we ota C-HR Hybrid Luna worth & skills area.” the tagline, “Imagine next year, community in Ardfield/Rath- for sale. The lucky winner will have ambitious plans for the €32,860 in association with For more information on you could live here!”. Within barry too. We plan to make our be drawn in a grand prize raffle re-development of Fitzgerald Lehane Motors and €5,000 in tickets, and to view images of an 8 minute drive is the blue facilities more accessible, build on Saturday, November 6th. Park. This competition will help cash. the #WinAGaff property, please flag beach of Inchydoney, Long a walkway around St James’ Brendan Keane, Chairperson those plans become a reality and Aidan O’Connor, Chair- visit the website www.winagaff. Strand and the walks at Castle- Park that everyone can enjoy of Fermoy GAA says: “Our it will also change the life of the person of Douglas GAA says: ie freke. West Cork has become an and construct a practice wall for club dates back to 1886 but our lucky winner who will have a “We all know how difficult it increasingly popular destination our juvenile members.” numbers are still growing. We new home in spectacular West is to get on the property ladder for home hunters during the A ticket for the draw costs want to keep attracting new Cork.” and what a difference this prize people Environment : Making a difference Researchers plumb the depths to solve Lough Hyne mystery

mysterious tale of disap- the drop in numbers and the a range of opportunistic observa- a biodiverse, resilient marine pearing marine sponges implications for life in other tions indicated that the decline in environment.” in a unique County Cork temperate mesophotic ecosys- numbers occurred between 2010 Professor Bell says the sud- Alough could yet have a happy tems (TMEs), a layer of the sea and about 2015. The innermost den, unexpected decline of the ending. floor typically extending from sites were affected the most, sponges shows the importance A team led by Professor of about 20 metres to 30m below suggesting the change originated of monitoring these temperate Marine Biology James Bell the surface to 150m, and home inside the lough or that its shel- mesophotic ecosystems around from Te Herenga Waka—Vic- for numerous invertebrates tered conditions exaggerated an the world. toria University of Wellington like sponges, sea fans and sea effect starting from the surround- For Te Herenga Waka—Victo- in New Zealand and Professor anemones. ing coast.” ria University of Wellington PhD Rob McAllen from University The researchers used 30 There were several possible candidate Valerio Micaroni, the College Cork has been studying years of scientific surveys causes, including outbreaks of research was a chance to apply the loss of possibly thousands (1990–2019) and opportunistic disease, increases in nutrients his interest in marine biodiver- Lough Hyne marine sponge. pic: Professor Rob McAllen of sponges from the underwater observations on the subtidal or heatwaves. Research is still sity conservation and in “animal cliffs inside Lough Hyne (Loch communities of Lough Hyne to ongoing into the cause, although forests”, those habitats formed Oighinn). gain insights into the long-term changes in water chemistry by animals permanently attached The team secured funding stability and vulnerability of remain one highly likely cause. to a substrate, like sponges, from the National Parks and those ecosystems. They then Professor Bell says it is corals and anemones. Wildlife Service of the Depart- considered the possible causes of encouraging to see some signs of “I liked the project because it ment of Housing, Local Govern- observed changes and discussed a natural recovery. allowed me to apply my knowl- ment and Heritage to study this the importance of regular mon- “While we were obviously edge to a real problem and to unusual event. itoring for TME conservation very concerned to see the sponge contribute to the conservation of Professor Bell, who is in Te around the world. populations in the lough decline an important ecosystem.” Herenga Waka—Victoria Uni- The Lough Hyne Marine so much, we were very surprised Professor Bell recently versity of Wellington’s Te Kura Nature Reserve is the only one to see new sponges reappearing gave his inaugural lecture at Mātauranga Koiora—School of of its kind in Ireland. What after just a short time.” Te Herenga Waka—Victoria Biological Sciences, has spent makes it unique, and a magnet The Minister of State for University of Wellington on a large part of his academic for marine biologists, is it hosts Heritage and Electoral Reform, how tropical marine sponges career working in Lough Hyne. many rare species and contains Malcolm Noonan, says the Irish may be among the ‘winners’, His PhD at University Col- a high number of habitats within Government is happy to support as organisms adapt to anthropo- lege Cork investigated these a small area of about 0.5 square more work at the lough. genic changes to oceans and the unusual sponge communities kilometres. “I’m delighted to support climate. in the semi-enclosed saltwater It is also a scientific curio, and this important work in Lough The paper’s co-authors are Mr lough on the south coast near a boon for scuba-divers, because Hyne—a site that has been glob- Micaroni and fellow Te Herenga Skibbereen. its rich mesophotic cliff com- ally recognised for its richness in Waka—Victoria University While it remains unclear why munities occur in far shallower biodiversity—and to hear of the of Wellington PhD student so many of the sponges experi- conditions than elsewhere in the early signs of potential recovery Francesca Strano; Professor enced such a strong decline in Atlantic Ocean, a consequence from its recent declines. McAllen and Luke Harman from numbers between about 2010 of its relatively murky waters “I am also committed to pro- University College Cork; Pro- and 2015, in the past couple of and sheltered location. viding ongoing support to these fessor John Turner from Bangor years there have been signs of a Professor Bell says long-term scientific investigations so that University; Dr Christine Morrow potential natural recovery of the sponge abundance reconstruc- we may better understand the from Queen’s University Belfast affected species. tion showed the number of causes of the decline, and what Marine Laboratory; and Bernard In a paper published in ‘Sci- sponges on the cliffs had been is influencing its potential recov- Picton from Queen’s and Nation- ence of the Total Environment’, relatively stable for at least 20 ery, so that we can apply those al Museums Northern Ireland. Professor Bell and co-authors years until 2010. lessons to our wider marine discuss the possible reasons for “We don’t know for sure, but environment, and to help secure The lake bed in 2010 (bottom) and 2018 (top) July 2 – August 5, 2021 23 people Environment : Making a difference Twenty-nine years of sustainable development but now regeneration is needed

Scientific and Technological answer to these questions. Life city environment. Community; Farmers. is complex and people are com- Communities of all sizes and Despite this, over the decade plex, we have numerous ‘vested from all cultures are creating a ENVIRONMENTAL since 2010, the International interests’ at play and our primal multi-dimensional meshwork, Union for Conservation of emotions such as fear and as more and more people rec- MATTERS Nature tell us that 467 species aggression are geared towards ognise the urgency for changing Fiona Hayes have been declared extinct; individual survival rather than our shared beliefs and practices the Global Forest Resources planetary survival. There are and the infrastructure and sys- Assessment 2020 shows the multitudes of variables creating tems that hold old beliefs and net loss in forests globally was immunity to change, however practices in place. wenty-nine years ago, 4.7 million hectares per year; unless we honestly face in This regenerative meshwork during the first two an estimated eight million ourselves where our immunity is creating an evolutionary weeks of June 1992, at pieces of plastic trash enter the to change is, we cannot hope to intelligence working towards Tthe Earth Summit in Rio de ocean daily; and the number of face the same at a global level. in a ‘need’ to wage war on any ing and also that of others. They healthy towns, cities, countries, Janeiro, more than 178 coun- premature deaths from outdoor The ability to face individual life (including bacteria and vi- attract people who look for regions. It uses systems thinking tries adopted Agenda 21 – a air pollution has risen from tw immunity to change naturally ruses) on this planet, regenera- meaning, not in gaining power and integral design to build both comprehensive plan of action million to 3.4 million. creates personal responsibility tion enables us to re-join nature. over others, but rather in acting the inner and outer capacity to build a global partnership for The same principles and and this easily scales up to The Human Genome Project with true integrity in upholding of the individuals and their sustainable development to im- policies that were adopted by community responsibility at a has shown us that the number of the Sustainable Development communities. It pays attention prove human lives and protect Agenda 21 have been further local level. human cells inside us that set us Goals (SDGs) set in 2015 by to culture and structures, using the environment. It was agreed discussed and re-affirmed many Community responsibility uniquely apart from nature are ALL193 members of the United peaceful and active inquiry to that this comprehensive ‘plan times producing many different starts to change the story, and dwarfed by the number of cells, Nations General Assembly and generate discussion, collabo- of action’ would be adopted papers and many different if you change the story you the number of bacteria and intended to be achieved by the ration and action; creating ad- globally, nationally and locally plans, roadmaps and agreements change the future. viruses and that put us squarely year 2030. vocacy and policy strategies to by organisations of the United to take us towards sustainable We have though, as our chil- ‘inside’ Nature, just as our Earth The Sustainable Devel- bridge divides and responding, Nations System, Governments, development. dren are telling us, left this be- is one small part of a universe opment Goals have become rather than reacting to critical and Major Groups in every area So much talking and so little yond the eleventh hour and thus of planets and stars. Regenera- a blueprint for LIFE for the and emergent contexts. in which humans impact on the action has occurred since that we now need to think beyond tive development enables us to planning of, administrating If we are ever to realise the environment. original Earth Summit that our sustainability to regeneration. initiate a process of co-evolu- of, creating infrastructure for goals voiced and signed up to at At the Earth Summit in Rio children have created ‘Fri- We need to use the sustainable tion with all of life and all that and developing of more than the Earth Summit twenty-nine de Janeiro it was recorded that days For Future’ to remind us development goals to build nurtures the process of life on 10,000 eco villages. However, years ago then ‘each communi- achieving sustainable develop- that it is their future and their regenerative communities that this planet. these eco villages are mostly ty must actively play its part’. ment would require the ‘active children’s future that we put at give new life, new energy. That The real question then is rural and even the largest of Even in the largest cities small participation of all sectors of risk by ignoring what we have revitalise the whole of nature. “How do we overcome our these are home to no more communities must come togeth- society’ and all types of people known for so long. Sustainability is the meeting 29-year-old lack of action, our than 2000 people. Most house er to create change. It then be- and documents formalised nine • What then is happening here? of our needs without compro- immunity to change, such that less than half this population. comes the policy-makers role to sectors of society as the main • Are humans so lacking in mising the ability of future we re-align human activity with Nevertheless, these small rural uphold and support that change, channels through which broad intelligence that we are in- generations to meet their own the evolution of the ecological communities have established allowing for difference and participation would be facili- capable of taking care of our needs. Regeneration goes system of nature within us and a way of developing that has at facilitating self-actualisation tated in UN activities related own children’s future? beyond the term ‘sustainability’, all around us?” its heart regeneration, creating of communities, supporting to sustainable development. • Why do we, as a whole spe- moving from exploitation of We need systemic change and a network of communication, and enabling multiple systems These nine sectors are officially cies keep barrelling destruc- finite resources to a paradigm the challenges of this systemic collaboration and support across rather than seeking to impose a called ‘Major Groups’ and tively towards disaster at the shift of Copernican perspective. change arise at cellular level; the world. single system on all. include the following sectors: same time as voicing plans Our modern model of natural that is they are specific to each Simultaneously communities We know what must change. Women; Children and Youth; to arrest our lemming like science has written mankind community. within cities have recognised We know why we must Indigenous Peoples; Non-Gov- tendencies and turn the ship out of Nature. In place of a fear Regenerative communities the need for a global shift in change. ernmental Organisations; Local around? of scarcity and the consequent naturally attract people who are perspective and have created Now we each need to take Authorities; Workers and Trade Of course there is no simple generation of control resulting interested in their own wellbe- blueprints for change within a responsibility for action. Unions; Business and Industry;

MEPs vote for new Climate Law calling on all citizens to ‘Play their Part’

ll Member States, commitment to EU climate below current projections, and lished a Climate Action Bill, emissions”. They also call for including Ireland must neutrality by 2050 into a bind- so reach the Paris Agreement’s which sets a target to decarbon- sufficient financing to achieve “step up” and work ing obligation. The new regula- two degrees Celcius target. ise the economy by 2050 at the this. Atowards new climate targets set tion establishes a framework for MEP Clune said: “Climate latest. Member States must now by the EU according to Ireland achieving climate-neutrality in change affects everyone from “We must play our part here take the necessary steps to meet South MEP Deirdre Clune. the EU by 2050. It sets a 2030 households, farmers, the fishing in Ireland and do what we the target. Member States will The European Parliament target of reducing the EU’s net industry, manufacturing and can to ensure a safe planet for also be required to develop and has voted to adopt the new EU greenhouse gas (GHG) emis- transport. We need to step up everyone. The new European implement adaptation strategies Climate Law and are calling sions by 55 per cent, compared on our emission reductions law will ensure that the EU to strengthen resilience and re- for ambitious 2030 and 2040 to 1990 levels. across all sectors. The prize of a will become climate neutral by duce vulnerability to the effects emissions reduction targets. Under current policies, the safer and more secure planet is 2050. The proposed Climate of climate change. The Climate The European Climate Law world is headed for a temper- a vital one. If not for ourselves Law now requires EU insti- Law includes measures to keep proposes a legally binding ature rise above three degrees then for our children and our tutions and Member States to track of progress and adjust target of net zero greenhouse Celcius by 2100, according grandchildren.” take the measures necessary to actions accordingly. gas emissions by 2050. to the United Nations Envi- This Law now gives Europe- achieve the collective climate Progress will be reviewed Ireland South MEP Deirdre ronment Programme (UNEP) an citizens and businesses the neutrality objective.” every five years, in line with the Clune said this is the first time emissions gap report 2020. legal certainty and predictabil- MEPs insist that both the EU global stocktake exercise under the Parliament has passed such Experts say that pursuing ity they need to plan for this and all member states individu- the Paris Agreement. a bill and it is very ambitious. a green recovery from the transition. ally must become climate-neu- The new law transforms the pandemic could help cut global MEP Clune noted how the tral by 2050 and that thereafter European Green Deal’s political 2030 emissions by 25 per cent Irish Government has also pub- the EU shall achieve “negative 24 July 2 – August 5, 2021 people Environment : Making a difference Moths in West Cork light is the most attractive to moths, so bulbs with lots of UV light have better catches. The easiest traps to use are mains-powered and usual- ly limited to the garden but you can convert these or use battery-operated ones further afield. Once you get hooked on moth trapping (most people do), This month, Karl you can have a go at trapping in Woods, a long-term different habitats. Different hab- committee member of itats have different food sources for moths and can provide a BirdWatch Ireland West different set of species. Marsh- Cork Branch, shares land, dune systems, forests, his other (non-birding) upland bogs etc. can all provide a unique and different trapping interest; moths. experience. Anybody interested in moths ith multiple lock- already or who would like to downs over the last get involved should check out 15 months or so Moths Ireland (www.mothsire- Wand many confined to the small land.com). This group promotes areas around their houses, peo- the awareness and enjoyment ple have been looking for new of all things moth-related in things to get into. The increase Ireland and co-ordinates the in people becoming interested recording of all sightings. The in their garden wildlife has website includes distribution been fantastic. It has opened up maps and flight charts for Irish a new world for some that has species plus other useful infor- continued, despite the easing Left is a Elephant Hawkmoth; Top is a Forester Moth; mation. There is also a fantastic of restrictions. For some, it Bottom is a Garden Tiger Moth. All pics: Karl Woods Facebook group (mothsireland) took the form of moth trapping. with experts on hand to help Together with their butterfly with identification and other relatives, moths make up the offering the largest numbers, already noticed moths coming inviting pastime. looking at a gallery of photos, queries. Anybody looking to order Lepidoptera, a part of the both of species and individuals. to their outside lights or even There are a few misconcep- will very quickly reveal that submit sightings can send class Insecta. However, unlike Spring and autumn, while not as a lighted window. Before I tions when people generally this is not necessarily the case. them to either Moths Ireland Ireland’s butterflies, which only productive as summer, still have bought my first dedicated moth think of moths, usually with a There are many moths with or National Biodiversity Data number 35 species, there have their own reasonable selection trap, I managed to record about comparison to butterflies. While colours and patterns that easily Centre (please only send to one been over 1,500 species of moth of species. Winter holds the 200 species in a six-year period, butterflies are the colourful ma- rival any other insect group. to avoid duplication as records recorded in Ireland. With most least numbers of moths but is all attracted by the outside jestic flying insects, moths are Add to this the array of wing are shared). gardens capable of yielding not completely devoid of them. light and windows. A torch left seen as boring and drab. A quick shapes and sizes and you can Please remember that a li- 200-plus species, it is easy Certain species have adapted to shining on a white sheet would flick through a moth guide, or see just how varied and interest- cence is required to use a Moth to see why it could be a very the colder temperatures during provide a similar effect. ing this group can be. Another this time of year and can be The most effective method Trap. This can be obtained by myth is that moths are the night- found during milder nights is to use a dedicated moth trap. contacting Moths Ireland and time counterpart to our day-time throughout the winter, with These can be purchased online getting added to their list of butterflies. While many species the aptly named Winter Moth ready-made or you can build trappers (free of charge). of moth are indeed nocturnal, and December Moth being your own if you feel up to it. there are also hundreds of day two of the species likely to be There are varying types of traps BirdWatch Ireland West Cork flying moths. encountered. and bulbs that can be used but Branch. For more informa- Surprising as it is, adult The easiest way to see all follow the same principle: tion about the Branch contact moths can actually be found moths is to bring them to you a light suspended over a box/ Nicholas Mitchell at secretary@ throughout the year, with dif- by providing a light source at bucket. The moths are attracted birdwatchirelandwestcork.ie or S P ferent species having different night. Even an urban garden is to the light, then funnelled join our mailing list by sending flight times. The majority, like likely to give a nice selection down into the box where (most an email to mailinglist@bird- many invertebrates, prefer the of moths, so anyone can try of them) stay until you look watchirelandwestcork.ie. ECOCIDE warmer months, with summer it. Most people have probably through it in the morning. UV change the law Glengarriff O’Sullivan raises future of Tidy Towns West Cork walks in Dáil harvesting ork South West Deputy “I have informed the Min- of these walks is a huge load Christopher O’Sul- ister for Rural and Communi- for just one person. rain water livan has told the ty Affairs that we need more “I have called for extra re- CDáil that the future of West resources and more rural recre- sources and for three rural recre- he Glengarriff Tidy Cork’s most iconic walks are ation officers to administer these ation officers at a minimum, to Towns Committee under threat because of a lack growing tourist attractions,” administer these walks so they recently added two 210 of administration staff. Deputy O’Sullivan said. can realise their future potential. Tlitre water butts in the village to Recently the West Cork “Between the Sheep’s Head “For example, there’s anoth- harvest rain water. These will be Development Partnership, who Way and the Beara way you’ve er possibility for a walk from used to water the plants at both run these walk schemes, met got over 400km of walks and Bantry to Drimoleague. A lot ends of the village. This is in with the three Cork South West just one RRO to administer of work has gone into it, but addition to the 10,000 litre water Deputy’s to outline the serious them and the many schemes that it won’t happen without more www.stopECOCIDE.earth butt which is centrally located in situation in which they find support them. provisions for RROs.” @ecocidelaw the Community Garden. themselves. They are under huge pressure. The administration July 2 – August 5, 2021 25 A flavour of West Cork Experience the magic of market day

ituated in the picturesque Emmet Square, the hum of activity and banter that Saccompanies market day in Clonakilty is a much looked- forward-to weekly feature in the town. Every Friday morning, come rain or shine, the sleepy Georgian square awakes with the sounds of traders setting up their stalls; the green is sud- denly awash with splashes of colour, as the bustle of trading gets underway. It’s a lively and entertaining atmosphere harking back to the tradition of market days of yore. The queue at the coffee stall starts to form early; the market is as much a social outing as a shopping trip for many. In summer, as the day moves on, picnic blankets sweep the grass with visitors taking in the sights and sounds and savouring some clonakilty of the world cuisine on offer. Never before have we all held such an appreciation for the abundance of delicious local food that lies right on friday our doorstep. West Cork is renowned for the quality of its food and markets contribute greatly to this. With almost 20 stalls, Clonakilty Market “If the past 18 months really I am thinking about usually swells even more during the people I am buying from the summer months; you’ll find have taught us anything, because their produce is an a diverse mix of local farmers, it is that supporting the extension of who they are: I’m artisan food producers and fine not just buying apple juice – MARKET local farmers’ market is crafts people. Local meats, I’m buying James’s apple juice, organic veg, fish, chicken, hot not a leisure activity or or Dave’s chicken, Nathan’s street food, fresh juices, raw EMMET SQUARE a lifestyle choice. Rath- pork, chemical-free fruit and chocolates, olives, cheeses, er, they are an essential veg grown by The Hollies, fresh salads, handmade soaps, service, a lifeline for Niamh’s chocolates, a coffee ceramics, breads and cakes from Shane, Dim Sum from Fridays 9am - 2pm are just some of the fare. It’s a people...” Piers, and so on. And while the vibrant shopping experience for Kate Ryan food nourishes the body, banter the people of Clonakilty and a with a stall holder, catching up great opportunity to support lo- with a friend, or just sitting and cal but also to meet the makers listening to the hustle and bustle Outstanding local produce and celebrate the exceptionally choice. Rather, they are an of the market nourishes the in the heart of Clonakilty: high standard of locally pro- essential service, a lifeline soul. Where would we be with- duced goods. for people – stall holders and out our Friday Farmer’s Market As local food writer Kate customers – and they underpin in Clonakilty? I wouldn’t want MEATS FISH VEG OLIVES CHOCOLATES Ryan puts it so aptly “If the the vibrancy of a thriving local to imagine!” past 18 months have taught us economy. All these things are as Come rain or shine, every anything, it is that supporting vital as the produce on display. Friday, from 9am to 2pm – ex- SMOOTHIES & JUICES BREADS & CAKES the local farmers’ market is not When I think about the food perience Clonakilty Market. a leisure activity or a lifestyle I buy when I visit the market, HOT & COLD LUNCHES COFFEE CREPES PLANTS & FLOWERS HANDMADE SOAPS CERAMICS JEWELLERY CRAFTS & LOTS MORE! E clonakiltyfridaymarket

New Traders & Musicians always welcome contact Sadie on 087 380 5156 26 July 2 – August 5, 2021 people A flavour of West Cork New Gluten Free brand is officially launched this month

Just 14 months after travelling quite a distance to buy improved shopper accessibility time and patience to turn out the returning from Australia the products in the Clonakilty to our range,” says Niamh. This perfect bread. store,” says Niamh. Seeing this service is available in stores that “Gillian, a fellow Clonakilty to work in her family gave the young businesswoman already stock the range. girl, who just completed a mas- supermarket in Clonakilty, the confidence to grow it as an “It’s still a very new brand ters in Food Innovation in UCC as it adjusted to trading in independent brand. Coeliacs are to the market, you always have has been working very closely a pandemic, Niamh Scally always searching for new and laggards who are slow to stray with me and looks after the pro- has taken a small in-house exciting products so this was a from familiar products they duction side of the business, and way of making it more accessi- already love and are afraid the support we have received brand and grown it into a ble to those who desire breadth to try something new, that’s from other local producers, fully-fledged independent of range and choice,” she says. why in-store sampling is a real knowledge experts and friends business – Clonakilty Niamh is emphatic that: loss!” she says. If times were has been wonderful. We have Gluten Free Kitchen. “Coeliacs need choice and to normal, the team would take to come along way as a team since be included, just like everyone the stores to taste the prod- we started out and we still have Some might have thought else. Sitting down to eat with ucts. “Meeting the customers a lot to learn absolutely but we it a half-baked idea to the family is such an important is so important, as I feel that are surrounded by great people start up a bakery business ritual, and nobody, child or connection with your audience and people who are always in such a challenging adult, wants to feel excluded is critical, particularly in the willing to advise, and that’s year, but the bakery’s from the meal talk at the dinner gluten free category where invaluable!” table.” Taking the certified glu- customers are so engaged In terms of expansion, the rapid growth has proven ten free and handmade range, and knowledgeable about the company has been focused ing and building a specialised of 17 lines, ranging from yeast hailed by coeliacs for its “real products they buy. The team on reaching all communities otherwise. gluten-free bakery at the back of breads like their rustic white taste”, last autumn the produc- understand that it can some- across Cork City and County, “I the store with a team of people loaf, multigrain and white rolls, conversation with the tion of the specialised bakery times be a disappointment to be am glad to share that we have working to develop the range. speciality loaves; oat and yogurt mother of a coeliac relocated to a Cork County diagnosed with coeliac disease almost completed our plans to There are 50,000 coeliacs loaf, corn bread and brioche, child, who wanted a Council Food Production unit in – but are determined to prove get to all the Cork stores and in Ireland with 100,000 more and confectionery lines like Anovelty, gluten free birthday the Bandon area to facilitate the that you do not need gluten for then I hope to start moving thought to have a gluten intol- their recently launched apple cake (over six years ago) just expansion. amazing flavour!” across Munster. One of the erance; interestingly, Ireland tart and tea brack. like the others, inspired Niamh’s At that time, the range was Whilst safety is at the top of main challenges I am faced with has one of the highest rates of “From day one, the Clonak- father, Eugene Scally, to offer available in two stores, Super- the list at all times, flavour and now is finding a bigger space in coeliac disease in the world. ilty Gluten Free Kitchen fo- much more to coeliacs than just Valu Clonakilty and Niamh’s the providence of ingredients order to expand the production The West Cork brand, that cused on variety and taste; that one or two varieties of bread. uncle’s SuperValu in Blackrock. do not suffer for it. “We work and breadth of range. We have features on the Coeliac Society ethos stood to the brand, and be- At that time, there was an At a time when Covid has been extremely hard on our recipes to been thrilled with the reaction Food List for 2021, has a total fore long, loyal customers were investment put into develop- to the forefront with shopping ensure that we can achieve the and positive response from the trends evolving, Niamh speaks great taste that we are known consumer and we look forward about stores going above and for, whilst using local suppliers to further enhancing production beyond to promote small local that are certified as gluten free – once we have the space to do producers like themselves. “A West Cork’s Irish Yogurts is the so.” lot of people are interested to main ingredient in our oat and Niamh explains that with the know what it was like develop- yogurt loaf and we are working increased demand for produc- ing a brand during lockdown with other local suppliers to see tion comes the need for bigger and Covid,” she says, admitting if we can certify their ingre- space, more ovens and more that she and her team of three dients too. If producers can people – so all in good time. at that time, had a lot of work be certified, it gives us more For now, “we have a great team, to do in terms of driving brand opportunities to develop our good positive energy and are awareness with the consumer, lines whilst maintaining our enjoying the challenge of it all!” particularly during lockdown, local produce values.” The Clonakilty Gluten Free when it came to moving into Another great boost for the Kitchen range can be bought in other stores. “With lack of business was the listing of the the following stores, SuperValu face-time in store, we have had range on the Coeliac Society Clonakilty, Bandon, Skibbereen, to organically grow the brand, Food List for 2021. “There was Bantry, Dunmanway, Ballincol- so online promotion has been an incredible reaction from lig, Tower, Togher, Grange, Gl- a real help in terms of getting consumers across the length anmire, Blackrock, Carrigaline, in front of the consumer,” she and breadth of the country once Kinsale, Kilmallock and Centra explains. The support from re- we were published on the Food New Road Bandon, Aherla, tailers in terms of promoting the List,” says Niamh. “For those Crosshaven and Drimoleague. range through their online chan- not familiar with this listing, it’s Also recently available in The nels has also been a real help! a guide for coeliacs on suitable Europe Hotel Killarney. “In ways, the pandemic has food products highlighting brought an overwhelming sense the brand as trustworthy for of support from the country for coeliacs.” The Clonakilty Gluten small, local and Irish producers It’s been an exciting time for Free Kitchen Brand and I really felt this sense of the business; since starting eight launch takes place in community from both retailers months ago, it has grown from Niamh’s hometown of and customers as they embraced two to 20 stockists, a mix of our new brand when it arrived SuperValu’s and Centras, along Clonakilty on Friday, July onto their shelves.” with some independent hotels 2 at the Model Railway The range is now also too. The team has also increased Village. Special guest, To pack the perfect picks for your picnic this summer, available to shop online through from three to five. Tara McCarthy, CEO find our range of breads, rolls, apple tart and much more selected SuperValu stores, as Niamh explains that, as a part of the SuperValu Food fledgling company, the team Bord Bia and Gill in-store or online at SuperValu Clonakilty, Skibbereen, Academy programme, which have been taking their time to Brennan CEO Coeliac Bantry, Dunmanway, Bandon or Centra the Clonakilty Gluten Free grow and learn as the company Society will be there to New Road Bandon, Drimoleague & Aherla. Kitchen became part of in May develops. celebrate the new and 2021. “The online shopping was “I have three bakers; Jacek, exciting brand. a great opportunity presented Piotr and Damian, who turn to us by SuperValu Ireland, out the entire range by hand as a result of the evolving and I am grateful for their skill market trends, which ultimately – baking is a real craft, it takes July 2 – August 5, 2021 27 people A flavour of West Cork

A reawakening Dinty’s Bar Main Street, Union Hall OPEN FOR OUTSIDE DINING At the beginning of March 2020, Hannah and Rachel razor from a Clonakilty-based to Saturday, ‘or when it’s gone, 7 days a week Dare, the sisters behind West Cork’s much-loved business. it’s gone,” says Hannah, who’s Organico in Bantry, were celebrating the introduction “It was so busy every sum- really embracing the new re- of a more efficient kitchen system that was to make life mer in the café we had to em- laxed atmosphere of Organico. easier in their busy café. Just a few weeks later, with ploy up to 10 people and then Even the bakers have a more the onset of the pandemic, the sisters closed the door the winters were very quiet.” repectable starting time every While it was a difficult decision morning of 6 instead of 4am! Please phone 085 7269977 to book. of their café and made the difficult decision not to open to make, as Rachel and Hannah With the challenges the past [email protected] www.facebook.com/dintys.bar it again. While the pandemic may have forced their knew how important the cafe year and a half brought now hand at the time, looking back, it has in fact given the was to the local community, behind them “it feels like we Organico story a much better ending, or rather a whole Covid forced the realisation on can breathe again,” explains them that their business model Hannah. new beginning… needed to change. “We were The daily menu includes simply surviving rather than salad boxes, sandwiches, cakes, he former café has been “We now have the space thriving,” says Hannah. snacks, and coffee – all made repurposed to house a to stock so many more Irish With this somewhat organic from organic, local, and season- new food venture, an products that we just couldn’t evolution of their business, al ingredients, and with a focus Texciting deli; as well as creating before,” enthuses Hannah. “We the sisters are delighted and on plant-based options (felafels, an extended space for the were so squeezed in the shop relieved to be feeding people tempeh, tofu). There is also a healthfood shop…it’s a more, before we just couldn’t service again and welcoming back Gubbeen cheese and ham salad relaxed, spacious, family-friend- people properly.” Just a few of familiar, as well as new faces to bowl. The fridge is also stocked ly Organico. There is an easier the new products from small Organico. with take home meals and Ra- flow now in the space, which is Irish companies now in store Since opening on June 1, chel’s tasty range of dressings more accessible for wheelchair include small batch choclates, the deli has been busy serving and sauces. users and can also accommo- a range of organic teas and a lunch, coffee, and cakes (all For this and much much date double buggies. stunning rose gold single blade takeaway) until 4pm, Monday more, call in to Organico on the Glangarriff Road, Bantry.

Timoleague NS nurtures marketing gurus of the future ixth class in Timoleague others. They typed up their neurship skills programme for NS have been awarded recipes and took photographs senior primary children helping a Merit in three catego- and sent their draft to get 200 them to appreciate their own Sries of the Junior Entrepreneur copies printed. They also had unique skills and successfully Programme awards - Marketing a handwritten note on the create a real business, working Gurus, Creative Pioneers and back of each recipe about why as a class team. Star Submission. The pupils they chose each recipe. They The programme is integrat- began their journey in the Junior included some local produce in ed into several aspects of the Entrepreneur Programme (JEP), their recipes and Foley’s Centra, school curriculum including adapted for online participation Timoleague and Timoleague English, Maths, Visual Arts, due to the pandemic, at the Post Office agreed to stock the ICT, Drama and SPHE, allow- beginning of this year. cookbooks. Due to the commit- ing the teacher to cover the cur- While completing the JEP ment of their teacher Ms Laura riculum in a fun and interesting journey, the pupils decided to O’Mahony and the sixth class way while developing valuable create a cookbook called ‘Blas pupils, it was a great success. life skills and introducing chil- Thigh Molaige’, as they had Not only did they received dren to entrepreneurship as a encountered many new and use- Merit in three categories but career choice. ful recipes over the lockdowns they sold all 200 copies. (l-r) Laura Sexton, Pawel Wozniak and Ciara Walsh. that they wanted to share with JEP is a real-life entrepre- 28 July 2 – August 5, 2021 people A flavour of West Cork Feast in The Field ust finding The Field ulous indoor restaurant, which Kershaw, another well-known Kitchen licensed restaurant doubles as a gallery, awaits West Cork gourmand, who at Camus Farm is part of once indoor dining resumes. loves working with the bounty Jits indelible charm. If you’re The set menu of six dishes of quality ingredients on his lucky, with the help of Google is seasonal and local. It’s a doorstep. Maps, you’ll arrive at a boreen feast where vegetables play Deborah and Vic have bordered by native hedgerows the main part and the organic entrusted the running of the res- teeming with wildlife and on beef makes an important guest taurant to Craig Scott and Nico- one side framed by the farm’s appearance. Expect to taste la McCarthy. Originally from veg beds. This marks the be- each of the ingredients: a recent Skibbereen, Nicola worked in ginning of a wonderful culinary menu included tantalising op- the US for many years and has journey of discovery. “We tions like sourdough flatbread, extensive experience in event debated whether to ask people Toonsbridge ricotta, chargrilled management. Through a series to pick their own spuds on the onions and wild garlic pesto. of wonderful coincidences, she way up, but we thought it might This was followed by ‘char- be taking it a step too far,” grilled beetroots, puy lentils, laughs co-owner Deborah. Not St Tola goat’s curd and salsa “We’re starting off an improbable request perhaps verde. Next up was the organic, though when you consider the homegrown, 100 per cent grass- gently but we have big possibility of finding a physicist fed, 30-day aged striploin of ideas for the future with and an art therapist farming beef salad with potato, fennel, themed evenings and beef and growing vegetables radish. Then it was time for the together in West Cork! The courgettes to shine accompa- music events on the Field Kitchen is a labour of nied by butterbeans, greens and menu,” love for husband and wife team gremolata. A date and walnut Deborah Ní Chaoímhe Vic Sprake and Deborah Ní pudding served with crème (l-r) Craig Scott, Nicola McCarthy, Deborah Ní Chaoímhe and Vic Sprake. Chaoímhe who, like so many fraiche brought a sweet finale other less than ordinary persons to this banquet. “It’s very much visited West Cork and settled a vegetarian menu with really into the landscape. The couple good beef rather than a token bought Camus Farm over 15 dish thrown in for the non-meat years ago and over time have eater,” says Deborah. nurtured the flat green fields back to life, planting thousands of trees and native hedgerows This is a shared dining on the 30-acre organic beef farm, creating the ideal habitat experience, outside for West Cork wildlife. during the current re- Five years ago Deborah and strictions, but a fabulous Vic started thinking about shar- ing their passion for biodiver- indoor restaurant, which sity and good food through the doubles as a gallery, creation of a culinary experi- awaits once indoor ence like no other. In terms of from farm to fork, you will not dining resumes. get any closer than this; the vegetables and beef are literally a stone’s throw from the table. Bob Cairns is the man at the While the project has taken a helm of West Cork’s newest while to reach fruition, it has gastronomic experience. After farmland, it’s literally a case of it’s entrees or a farm walk from Please take note, rushing is no doubt been worth the wait, moving from London, Bob connected with Camus Farm, to work through the fields. 12pm with food on the table not allowed. Take time to enjoy gathering momentum in the built up his reputation in West which provided the opportunity “We’re starting off gently by 1pm. The set menu costs the beautiful natural surround- most unlikely of times – during Cork following a successful for her to move back home. but we have big ideas for the €40pps excluding drinks. No ings and the food…it’s West a pandemic. “It feels like the season as gardener-cum-chef Craig has almost 20 years ex- future with themed evenings kid’s menu: this is a one-for- Cork at its best! timing is really right now at Glensallagh Gardens. He perience working in hospitality and music events on the menu,” all experience! Wine and beer because of our outdoor space,” went on to manage the kitchen and is well known in West shares Deborah. lovers should be happy with the For bookings go to www. says Vic. at Glebe Café in Skibbereen Cork for his calm and good-hu- For now the restaurant gates selection available. Smoking fieldkitchen.ie. This is a shared dining and most recently helped set moured approach to customer open at 6pm on Thursdays and and vaping are not permitted experience, outside during the up the menu at Connolly’s of care. Most of the team are local Fridays, with food on the table on the farm. The restaurant is current restrictions, but a fab- Leap. Bob’s sous chef is Simon and for some who live on the by 7pm. Saturday and Sunday, wheelchair accessible. July 2 – August 5, 2021 29 people A flavour of West Cork

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Toonsbridge Dairy features in OUT & ABOUT IN new NDC Advertising Campaign WEST CORK enny Rose and Toby Simmonds, owners of Toonsbridge Dairy in Macroom, will be featuring in a new advertising campaign for the National Dairy Council. The new campaign will support Jthe Foodservice industry in Ireland, which has suffered considerably during the Covid-19 Crisis. The EU-funded campaign is supporting the foodservice industries impacted in Ireland, France, Denmark, Bel- gium and Northern Ireland. Bord Bia estimated that the food industry in Ireland contracted by almost half during the pandemic crisis where restaurants, pubs, hotels, coffee shops, workplace, hospitals and educational canteens were all forced to close. The campaign will be a mix of outdoor, print and online media and is designed to reinforce the impact and to restore the consumer confidence in dairy products. Interestingly, recent research undertaken by NDC showed a 48 per cent increase in dairy consumption during the pandemic. Nearly one- third of young adults without children indicate that their consumption of dairy products has increased since the beginning of the Covid-19 lockdown. This increase is significantly higher for young adults with children, almost half of these respondents says their milk consump- tion has almost doubled. As part of the campaign, NDC specially selected seven high profile cafes and food producers across Ireland who were each photographed for the campaign by renowned food photographer Mike O’Toole.

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Congratulations to Kayla O’ Halloran from Ballymoney 22 CONNOLLY STREET, CLONAKILTY, WEST CORK National School who represented Ballineen and Enniskeane (l-r) Jessica Finken with Fleur Hindley, Store Manager, Tel: 023 8836938 [email protected] www.lettercollum.ie and won the County Cork section of the Community Games Organico Bantry. Jessica, one of the team at Organico TUESDAY TO FRIDAY 9:30am to 4pm under 12’s dancing competition. Kayla will represent Cork Bantry, is celebrating her achievement as she graduates SATURDAY 10am to 4pm in the National Finals from the Dr. Hauschka Skincare Academy. 30 July 2 – August 5, 2021 people A flavour of West Cork Grilled watermelon will surprise you flip, cook the other side and the water and salt and pepper. serve. We ate ours with lightly Submerge the watermelon pickled cucumber and mint. slices by carefully arranging them in the bowl – it will be quite a snug fit. Cover and leave Grilled Watermelon aside in a cool place for 24 A FLAVOUR OF Fillet with Recado hours. WEST CORK Rojo Serves 6 Lightly Pickled Cucumber RECIPE Ingredients: and Mint • 1 small watermelon Ingredients: Karen Austin • 25g achiote/recado rojo/or the • 1 cucumber paste below • 100mls white wine vinegar • 200mls white wine vinegar • 2tbs sugar ow time flies! We have • 500mls water • ½ tsp salt already entered the • 4g salt • A bunch of fresh mint. second half of summer, • 2g cracked black pepper Hhaving passed the longest day, Put the vinegar, sugar and salt which seems to have come Homemade Recado Rojo/ into a bowl then mix together to round faster than ever this year. Achiote paste substitute dissolve It may be the second half of Ingredients: Peel the cucumbers, cut them summer but I’m still prowling • 1 1/2 tsp sweet paprika in half lengthwise then remove around the courgettes plants • 1-2tbs water the seeds with spoon. waiting for them to spring into • 3/4 tsp oregano Place the cucumber on a action, ditto with our broad • ¼ tsp ground cumin chopping board then cut into beans and the tomatoes haven’t • ¼ tsp ground cloves skinny slices on the diagonal. a notion of ripening yet. Luckily • ½ tsp turmeric Strip the mint from the stems everything is looking healthy • 2 cloves garlic, peeled and and chop finely. and with time we’ll have the very finely chopped Put the mint and cucumber usual gluts. into the vinegar mix and toss Meanwhile I’ve been obsess- Mix all of the ingredients to a well. Leave aside for at least 15 ing about watermelons. This smooth paste. minutes. is in addition to my barbecu- First peel the watermelon. To cook the melon fire up the ing obsession, as I have this Using a sharp knife slice off barbecue or heat a grill pan memory of a dish we ate whilst the top and the bottom of the Take the melon from the simple, which truth be told is not so readily available here travelling in Mexico. Long ago, around it. Pretty as a picture melon. Place the melon on marinade, shake off excess mar- what you need for a barbecue. so I Googled alternatives and before the lockdown, we were and the flavour and texture was the chopping board bottom inade then place on a hot grill. There is one small hitch – the came up with a recipe that has in Campeche on the Yucatan so surprising. Later that day I side down; this will give you Grill each side for two to three recipe uses achiote paste, which accessible ingredients and is a peninsula where I ate the most had the good fortune to pick the a steady melon to work with. minutes until nicely charred. is known as Recado Rojo in good substitute. amazing grilled watermelon. It chef’s brain and I jotted down Carefully peel the melon rind Serve with little piles of the Yucatan. Achiote is made This recipe involves a little was one of the most memo- the recipe, gram for gram in my away, cutting downwards, then pickled cucumber. rable dishes that I had on that notebook where it lounged until from seeds of the annato plant, forward prep – the watermelon turn the melon over and repeat. a small tropical evergreen plant needs to be marinated for twen- trip, maybe because it was so this summer when I bought my Chop the peeled melon into Lettercollum Kitchen Project that grows in Mexico. It’s an or- ty-four hours – but the beauty surprising. I ordered it because barbie. half, then chop each half into 22, Connolly Street. Clonakilty ange/red spice, which smells a of this is that when it comes to it sounded so odd. Grilled I was slightly nervous the 4cm slices. www.lettercollum.ie little peppery and tastes slightly the day of the barbecue, all the Watermelon Fillet with Recado first time that I made it, as good Mix 25g of the achiote/re- [email protected] Rojo. It came to the table, king memories have been known to sweet, nutty and earthy. I have a work is done. Just put the water- cardo Rojo paste together in a of the plate with little piles of trick the taste buds but the rec- box of achiote, which I bought melon on the grill, resist poking fairly big bowl with the vinegar pickled vegetables and avocado ipe worked. Spot on and very home with me but I know it’s it until it’s lightly charred, then until it has dissolved, then add people Health & Lifestyle Paediatric Epilepsy Monitoring Unit opens at Bon Secours Cork dedicated Paediatric possible thanks to the joint 25, Clinic B, The Cork Clinic, Epilepsy Monitoring effort of the hospital’s Consul- Western Road, Cork for review Unit, the first of its kind tant Paediatric Neurologist, Dr. prior to admission. Ain the Munster region and the Niamh Lynch and the Neuro- first private unit in the country, physiology Department, led by Pictured is Dr. Peter has opened at the Bon Secours Dr. Peter Kinirons. Kinirons, Consultant Hospital Cork. Direct referrals by paediatri- Neurologist/Clinical This state-of-the-art unit cians are accepted and a referral Neurophysiologist and consists of one dedicated bed letter with patient details (in- Ms. Antonia Walsh CNMII with continuous nurse supervi- cluding a contact number) and sion and video EEG recording, reason for referral should be Children’s Ward, looking located in the Children’s Ward. addressed to Ms. Claudia Leite, at the monitor where Ms. Patients admitted to this Senior Neurophysiologist, Claudia Leite, Senior unit will benefit from timely Neurophysiology Department, Neurophysiologist and Dr. diagnosis and management Bon Secours Hospital, College Niamh Lynch Consultant of epilepsy; all done in a safe Road, Cork (Email: CALeite@ Paediatric Neurologist are environment and supervised by bonsecours.ie). with Laoise Cahill Murphy, highly trained Paediatric nurses GPs are welcome to refer student nurse, who is posing and Neurophysiologists. patients to Dr. Niamh Lynch, as a patient. The launch of this unit was Consultant Paediatrician, Suite July 2 – August 5, 2021 31 people Health & Lifestyle Take care of your body…and your body will take care of you to study with some extraordinary simply health-ist, with far more so that we typically fail to make teachers and healers; I endeav- gravity and threat for those with the link between the way we’re our to weave all these threads pre-existing health issues and/or eating now and the resulting into the tapestry of my clinical excess weight. health issues that develop gradu- practice. Futhermore, this pandemic ally over time, as our body’s best I am equally enthralled by the has shown us how our medical efforts to mitigate the effects immense wisdom of ancient cul- services are not only delivered become weaker. I would like tures and medical traditions as by untenably overworked and to suggest that there is almost with the often-stunning advances underpaid angels, but that in the no health issue that cannot be in modern science and society face of such a medical crisis, all improved and benefitted by and so honouring, bridging and other health needs are necessar- removing burdensome foods integrating both these domains ily side-lined. With medical ser- and increasing the foods we are Radical Wellness of knowledge, understanding vices not as readily available for evolutionarily designed to eat Freya Sherlock and skill is personally and pro- our more chronic ails, the onus and are biologically capable fessionally important to me. falls to us to take more extreme of processing. So much of our The past 18 months, hu- responsibility for our health modern diet is loaded with Freya Sherlock is a professional man health has literally and and to do so as a matter of good ingredients that our bodies find Chinese Medicine practitioner metaphorically been under the practice, and basic lifestyle, confusing, harmful and ultimate- GET offering Acupuncture and microscope. And in the climate far in advance of experiencing ly toxic, even if we don’t realise Moxibustion, Chinese Herbal of fear, uncertainty, anxiety, and health issues. this is the case until it’s too late Medicine prescriptions and Tui confusion it can be hard to dis- I have a vision of a day, and we have developed symp- Na Remedial Bodywork at her cern what is the solid ground we when it is the ‘new normal’ toms and illnesses. And yet our private clinic in Dunmanway. can confidently stand on in terms for people to realise just how quality of life, our productivity, She offers a general practice of how to move forward with much they can positively effect our wellbeing, our psycho-emo- with additional specialisms in our individual and collective and even amplify their level of tional stability is completely Reset your body. women’s health and digestive health. The pandemic rumbles health and wellbeing through and inextricably intertwined disorders. Freya is also Ireland’s Reset your LIFE. on, morphing into variants nutrition alone, and that if issues with our levels of health. Call premier WildFit Coach. and unleashing immeasurable still arise, that robust natural me old-fashioned, but it seems a Eat the way nature intended. consequences on all our lives, medicine services are available no-brainer to live each day with 90 Days for a New You love exploring the art of like an existential tsunami with as primary care. I harbour a hope as much rude health, energetic living, discovering ways to multi-faceted devastation still that over time, we can reduce capacity and good-natured equi- Join the WildFit Transformational Programme infuse daily life with soulful- rippling the world over. And yet, the burden on our hospitals and librium as possible! Starting July 12th 2021 Iness, expanding how I do things, every crisis bears its gifts. medics by accepting that we To that end, I am delighted see things, and make meaning So, what are the pearls we can ourselves influence our health so to be pioneering WildFit, a pro- radicalwellness of things, contemplating our in- fashion from this global grit? much through what we consume. gramme in Ireland, created by dividual and collective potential These too I feel, are numerous And since scientists predict that the powerhouse, Eric Edmeades, in today’s world and seeking and widespread, from a healthy variants of Covid are likely to be which dovetails behavioural practices that support our own re-evaluation of how we’ve been a thing of the future, I encourage science and psychology with and each other’s evolution. collectively hurtling along on an you to take this opportunity of nutritional education to help you For me, attending to our unsustainable crash course as a the lull before the next storm, re-set your body and in doing health is Step One. We all know species on this planet through to to dive into your nutritional so, re-set your life. For further ‘our health is our wealth’ and re-inventing new and perhaps life, into learning how to run information on how to join this yet, in my clinical life as an Acu- more balanced ways of living, your metabolism efficiently and upcoming programme starting puncturist and Chinese Medicine working and being, as priorities effectively through what you eat on July 12 please do contact me. Book your discovery call practitioner, I see how challeng- have necessarily adjusted. and raise the bar for yourself in Over the next few issues of to nd out more on 086 1273148 ing it can be for so many people Perhaps one of the real silver terms of just how healthy and West Cork People, I will be or visit www.freyasherlock.com/wildt to feel truly healthy, physically, linings is that this experience symptom free you can feel. exploring topical health and mentally and emotionally. has brought into sharp relief that The problem is that many wellness issues through the lens Finding ways to alleviate the none of us can take our health of us can get away with eating of Chinese Medicine and nutri- suffering that diminished health for granted. While Covid 19 unhelpful or even non-functional tional wisdom. can bring has been my life’s was initially regarded as being junk and convenience foods calling. somewhat ageist, a problem- and our bodies simply gets on Freya can be contacted by My quest over the past 35 atic stance at best in terms of with coping with it. There is a phone on 086 127 3148 or email years has taken me across North encouraging social responsibility huge awareness gap between [email protected]. www. America, Europe, Asia and towards our older folk, it would the foods we eat today, and the freyasherlock.com China where I have been blessed now seem that this virus is long-term effects of those foods, Swim Ireland launches new membership category wim Ireland last month members will be able to avail of doors to many other sports. announced the launch of a many benefits including mem- Siobhan Kennedy, an open new membership category, ber-only events, monthly prizes, water swimmer enjoys the Sentitled ‘Me and the Water’. The giveaways and will receive a thrill of the elements. Siobhan membership will cater for those specially designed ‘Me and the said, “There’s a real buzz, it can who love to dip their toe, swim Water’ swim hat to connect you be exhilarating to be out in the out to the buoy and back, enjoy genuine love of swimming (and with the tribe. Members will also midst of the big waves. What an early morning workout in the the water) and connecting them have access to real life stories draws me to the water? Well, pool and a whole community through various channels and ac- from our tribe to inspire you in everything, it’s magic, it’s bigger who have a passion for and rela- tivities. It lets peers support each your Me And The Water journey, than you. You walk into the water tionship with the water, but are other and develop a forum where access to training plans, videos, and it takes all of your problems not members of a club. swimmers can talk swimming tips and drills to help improve away, you can’t think of anything COVID Vaccines at Glengarriff Pharamacy ‘Me and the Water’ represents and help each other. The conduit stroke and fitness levels discounts when you’re there. I don’t The Janssen (Johnson & Johnson) one dose vaccine is now Swim Ireland’s ambition to ‘Get for this is the new website, www. for our events and from our know what I’d do if I couldn’t available at Glengarriff Pharmacy for people aged 50 years and Ireland Swimming’. It’s a broad meandthewater.ie. partners. swim – it’s my solace, it’s my older who have not been vaccinated yet. Appointments will be remit, but an exciting one. It Annual membership for the Swimming is one of life’s everything.” available seven days per week, including Sundays. Please get in is about creating a community ‘Me and the Water’ category is basic skills and not only keeps Further information is availa- touch with Glengarriff Pharmacy on 027 63744, or email of people (a tribe!) who have a just €10. ‘Me and the Water’ you fit and healthy but opens the ble on www.meandthewater.ie [email protected] to make your appointment. 32 July 2 – August 5, 2021 people Health & Lifestyle WALKING IN MY SHOES Shoes that follow four paws blossoms wafting from a garden oblivious to what is around in harness. He can pet and chat Elizabeth Walsh is unceremoniously halted by a them. A sharp edge strikes his to him to his hearts content when leafy, twiggy, spiky smack to the head before he has even left the his harness comes off, then he Walking in my shoes – side of his face; a hedge left too footpath. His hand automatical- is an everyday pet dog, like any accessibility explained. long without trimming. ly checks his head, then feels other. Each and every day our lives He is meeting a friend in to find what has struck him. Their usual spot is vacant. He impact on each person’s town. His dog knows the route. Low-flying flower baskets. They asks his friend for his arm and life whose path we cross, It is altering each day with were not here ten days ago. Not- takes a gentle hold of the back metaphorically and physically, outdoor dining, but his dog ed. He edges on the route he has of his elbow to be guided by positively or negatively! somehow manages. He needs learned, to allow him to traverse him, as they stroll over the grass to cross the road, the kerb is around the misnamed shared to a spot, which has some cool blocked…“Find the way” he en- space. It is so intimidating, scary. shade for his dog to stretch out courages his dog. A hand grabs People are all around him, he in, while they eat. He removes he sunshine is warm on his arm, startling him, grabbing is shoved sideways, trying to his dog’s harness and reminds his shoulders as he walks, him, almost dragging him, in regain balance, trying not to lose his friend that petting time has in rhythm with the steady a well-intentioned silent effort balance, trying not to affect his arrived, as he clips an ordinary Tgait, of the beautiful, imposing, to assist. The concern, of the dog with his loss of balance, lead on his dog. His dog snoozes golden retriever beside him. He voiceless hand, is appreciated; they could both be injured. “Hey, in the shade. can walk smartly, this is the in- however, the type of assistance you just swung your backpack His dog is veering slightly to credible gift his dog has given to is misplaced. “I cannot see but into that guy” someone shouts. the left of the tactile paving, as him, no white cane getting stuck I speak, ask me. I would love to The park beckons, he can they approach the junction to in gratings, under wheelie bins, explain, what I need, if I’m in hear children shouting, playing. cross. He is puzzled but trusts or in the street furniture littering need, the assistance I need.” His friend calls to his dog and his dog’s judgement. His free perhaps fallen. however, it is a constant concern his path; the obstacle course his He needs to pass through a pets him as he approaches. He hand collides with the iron frame He reflects on how odd it is, to keep them both safe. It is after dog can negotiate, but a long shared space. Disaster zone. has explained to his friend, so of a sandwich board, on the how little, sighted people can all, only courtesy, respect and cane user trips over, bumps No reference points for his dog. many times, that it is not fair to tactile paving. He would have really see. consideration or lack of it, which into and injures themselves. No kerb, just a wide abyss, distract his dog, to cause him no hope if he had a long cane, He is thankful for the four can put them at risk. His enjoyment of the aroma of with people, chatting, laughing, conflict, when he is working and he would have just collided, paws that his two shoes follow;

visually impaired and everyone Commerce, local vintners and Clon disability-rights group appeals to businesses to in our community with any other business associations to physical difficulties as well as please convey this appeal to remember all members of society in ‘outdoor summer’ child-carers with buggies, can their members. pass in safety and comfort. We “And of course we expect the he Clonakilty Access premises, the group asks busi- said we’re to have an ‘outdoor the ‘outdoor summer’, that they make this call at the outset of Cork County Council who is Group has welcomed the nesses who are now using public summer’. They’ve put many always ensure that if using pub- Clonakilty ‘opening up’ and ask rightly supporting these business re-opening up of society areas near their premises to be incentives in place for business- lic spaces that they remember that as well as not placing large initiatives, to please enforce Tand wishes all local businesses aware of the issue of access and es in towns and cities, which is that are just that – public, and items such as benches, tables your own regulations in this re- every success. With Ireland as safety on footpaths. great and well-deserved. everyone has the right to use and chairs on footpaths, that gard. People with disabilities are a whole planning an ‘outdoor In a statement the group said: “We wish to take this oppor- them unimpeded and safely. advertising and menu boards looking forward like everyone summer’ in 2021, and hospitality “Like everyone else, people with tunity to wish all the Clonakilty “In particular we want to and ‘items for sale’ are similarly else to the ‘outdoor summer’ outlets such as pubs and restau- disabilities of all types are de- businesses well and hope the sun highlight that footpaths should not placed on footpaths. experience in our town and com- rants mainly providing services lighted that society is beginning shines. However we also call be kept clear of obstacles so “We appeal to groups like munities and we hope the sun in outdoor areas on or near their to open up. The government has on them to ensure that as part of that wheelchair-users, the the Clonakilty Chamber of shines for everyone involved”.

A decoction of the leaf with The weed you won’t want honey added is useful for bron- chitis and asthma but burning it as incense may also help relieve to be without pulmonary complaints. The root and seed have a reputation as he herb Plantago major lems. It is a rapid pain reliever and cancer”. a liver tonic and an ‘in vitro’ (greater plantain) or of stings, bites and poison ivy The leaves may also be study has shown that an extract weed to most people, rash. Plantago major contains pickled and used in salads and of Plantago major seed, shows Tis a familiar sight in gardens several active compounds such the seeds have been ground to a reduction in the levels of presently. The leaves may be as flavonoids, polysaccharides, make flour. It is very nutritious, alanine aminotransferase (ALT) quite large, and it is just ready terpenoids, lipids, iridoid as it contains vitamins A, B, and aspartate aminotransferase to harvest. A versatile plant, it glycosides and caffeic acid C, and K, calcium, fibre, fat, (AST). has been used as medicine and derivatives and current research protein, silicon, zinc, tannin, Since this herb is also a HERBAL food since ancient times and has suggests that “the regulation of and mucilage. The seeds are diuretic, it is helpful in urinary many benefits. immune parameters by P. major also a source of protein, and HEALING retention and any bladder and It is used for bladder leaf extract (Plantain) may be traditionally were added to the month, look more admiringly at kidney pain. To treat the latter a Dr. Rosari Kingston infections, bronchitis, colds, clinically relevant in numerous diet of caged birds. this lovely plant and remember plaster of a leaf may be placed haemorrhoids, to reduce diseases including chronic viral The seeds and roots of plan- it has served mankind for aeons over the kidneys. swelling, and for skin prob- infections, tuberculosis, AIDS, tain are more astringent (drying) as food and medicine and is Dr. Rosari Kingston PhD, M.Sc The dried herb, crushed than the leaf, so the seeds are continuing to do so today, espe- (Herbal medicine) is a medi- to powder, is the traditional better at stopping bleeding than cially in cancer research. cal herbalist practising in Dr. way of using it in wounds and HOME MOBILITY SOLUTIONS the leaf is. They are even better O’Reilly’s integrative clinical skin diseases especially deep Chiang LC, Chiang W, Chang MY, Lin CC. In at this task if they are roasted vitro cytotoxic, antiviral and immunomodula- practice in Clonakilty, Co. Cork STAIRLIFTS wounds, purulent wounds and first. The leaves are quite juicy, tory effects of Plantago major and Plantago as well as Church Cross, Skib- many more skin conditions. The asiatica. Am J Chin Med. 2003;31:225–34. [Pu- HOME CONVERSIONS and this juice has been, and is bMed] bereen. Dr. Kingston’s area of polyphenols, especially planta- used, for earache and sore eyes. Türel I, Özbek H, Erten R, Öner AC, Cengiz N, research are the healing modal- NATIONWIDE SERVICE majoside, are considered to be Yilmaz O. Hepatoprotective and anti-inflam- Placing a hot (not too hot) leaf matory activities of Plantago major L. Indian J ities present in Irish vernacular the main significant compounds GRANTS UP TO €30K over an aching ear may also Pharmacol. 2009;41:120–4. [PubMed] medicine and she incorporates for wound healing so it is bene- Atta AH, Nasr SM, Mouneir SM. Potential pro- bring relief. The juice of the tective effect of some plant extracts against car- them, where possible, into her FIND OUT IF YOU ficial to dry some leaves, grind leaves or a decoction of the bon tetrachloride–induced hepatotoxicity. Afr J clinical practice. In her clinical QUALIFY FOR A GRANT them to a powder, and have this Tradit Complement Altern Med. 2006;3:1–9. leaves may also be used for Zubair M, Ekholm A, Nybom H, Renvert S, Wid- practise she specialises in infer- remedy to hand come the winter oral lesions, mouth sores, loose en C, Rumpunen K. Effects of Plantago major L. tility and digestive issues. 021 – 4708652 months. leaf extracts on oral epithelial cells in a scratch teeth, gingivitis, and tonsilitis. assay. J Ethnopharmacol. 2012;141:825–30. www.rosarikingstonphd.com www.kchstairlifts.ie So, if weeding the garden this July 2 – August 5, 2021 33 34 July 2 – August 5, 2021 people Health & Lifestyle Food for thought

here is a growing are important for learning and brain. One study of healthy understanding of the memory. volunteers showed that eating links between diet and We should try to eat avocados high-flavanol cocoa for five Tbrain health, and especially regularly, as they contain high days improved blood flow degenerative conditions such as quantities of monounsaturated to the brain. Cocoa may also dementia, and other conditions fatty acids, as well as seeds and significantly improve cognitive such as depression and anxiety. nuts, eggs and coconut oil. Oily function in elderly people with by recommending omega 3 for is another fascinating area of In particular, a high sugar diet Fish is a good source of essen- mental impairment. Go for the brain, as so many people research. Ted Dinan is an Irish HEALTH seems to be more and more as- tial fats, so try and eat mackerel organic, high quality chocolate find it hard to eat enough oily Professor of Psychiatry at sociated with degenerative brain whenever you can this summer! though – dairy milk isn’t bene- fish. One that is high in DHA University College, Cork - he Hannah Dare conditions. With this in mind And if you aren’t managing ficial at all! is particularly good. If you are believes firmly in the connec- we all need to keep a close eye several portions a week, then a Caffeine, in moderate doses, vegan, there are really good tion between the gut and the Organico Bantry on our blood sugar levels, and good strong Omega 3 Sup- has been shown to help brain high strength Vegan Omega 3 brain (a partnership called the make sure we don’t fall into the plement is something I would function. Green tea contains less supplements at your local health gut-brain axis). 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In of our brain is made of fat? Fat against age-related mental teas are the best, they taste great lead to a sharper memory. underlying cause of depression is very important for proper decline. Vitamin C is a powerful and the ingredients are good We would also always and anxiety. So a good diet full this month’s article I’m brain function, but it needs to antioxidant that helps fight off quality too. suggest a good vitamin B of fermented foods will benefit taking a look at both as- be the right kind. We need to the free radicals that can dam- Turmeric is an antioxidant complex - vitamins B6, B9 and your gut and in turn your brain. pects of brain support. get enough omega 3-fatty acids age brain cells. But a diet rich in and anti-inflammatory herb that B12 are often linked with brain The supplement that Ted because these are the essential fruit and veggies is essential for has positive effects on many health. They can help break Dinan had a hand in develop- building blocks of our brain and brain health. body systems including the down homocysteine, high levels ing, called Zenflore, is aimed at Blueberries contain flava- brain. Curcumin, an extract of which have been associated improving the specific gut flora nols, a type of flavonoid, that of turmeric, may be effective with a greater risk of dementia. that help with mood balance gives them antioxidant and in delaying or even reversing B12 is particularly important and could possibly help to anti-inflammatory effects that many brain diseases and age-re- for brian health in people eating prevent depression and anxiety, reduce and repair cell damage. lated decreases in brain function little meat or dairy. and it’s available in your local Anthocyanins found in red, blue and can improve memory. 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Remember a Advice for hot women summer’s day at My wife, Anne, has followed the wide cover- Ballinacarriga... age recently of the debate around HRT. She has criticised me, as a GP, for the fact that only 10 per cent of women are taking HRT! In my, and every male doctor’s defence, I plead that we leave these matters to the lady doctors and practice nurses ...with with whom we work. I imagined that as women honeysuckle, approach the menopause this would be high on the rose & agenda in their consultations. lavender. DOCTOR’S This might not be the case however, so over to Buy online at: E ORDERS my wife Anne, a nurse herself and of a certain age, ismisecandles who has looked closely at the benefits of HRT. Memory scent Dr Jeff Featherstone Over to you Anne… candles made in West Cork cancer. This resulted in women support groups, for example Dr Featherstone is a high- GPs and Public Health Nurses to strual bleeds. Post menopause is with soy wax & being afraid to take it and GPs ‘The Irish Menopause’ on ly experienced medic and get individualised advice about the stage after your menopause, fragrance oil afraid to prescribe it. However Facebook. award-winning doctor who their symptoms and what can the post reproductive stage of a more recent study has shown And of course there are a works in a busy GP practice in help them best. The menopause your life. Average age is 53-56, that only four in 1000 women plethora of alternative natural West Cork, as well as at Mercy is no longer a taboo subject to be it can be earlier or later. will get breast cancer as a result remedies out on the marketplace. cling and swimming are all good University Hospital and Cork embarrassed and ashamed about. The symptoms of menopause of taking HRT. If women have In traditional Chinese Med- and will help to bring positivity University Hospital, as an A&E So what is the menopause? It are not only hot flushes and the cancer in their family history, it icine they call going into the to this new experience. Be kind doctor. is derived from ancient Greek loss of periods. There are 32 is advisable to see a specialist. menopause their Second Spring. to yourself, put your own needs and means the pause in the symptoms associated with it. (GPs shouldn’t just say ‘No’.) It A beautiful time of renewal and front and centre and ask yourself monthly cycle. ‘The Menopause’ Here are some of them: Anxiety/ is becoming more evident that rebalance when a woman’s body “what do I need for myself at he conversation is covers the three stages; perimen- depression, mood swings, rage, for the vast majority of women finally becomes her own and she this moment?” opening up! Finally we opause, menopause and post irritability, insomnia, memory the benefits of taking HRT is is not tied to the menstrual cycle. So to sum up; don’t be afraid are talking about the… menopause. Perimenopause loss, brain fog, chills, night likely to outweigh the risks as- In Eastern cultures there is a lot to talk to your GP. Make sure TMenopause. Joe Duffy and is when you are coming to the sweats. Urinary problems; your GP considers menopausal sociated with it. In the UK only of respect for older women who Davina McCall have opened the end of your reproductive stage frequency, urgency, vaginal one in 10 women take HRT. And have a role to play in extend- issues no matter what your age. way with their phone-ins and of life. Your menstrual cycle dryness/soreness. Loss of libido. yet it is known to help prevent; ed families and communities. And don’t dismiss HRT – it can documentary. becomes irregular, as your ova- Dry eyes/mouth. Hair thinning/ ovarian cancer, bowel cancer, This eases their transition into be beneficial. HRT and psycho- Centuries ago women died ries release fewer eggs and your dry. Weight gain, feeling dizzy, heart disease, osteoporosis and menopause. therapy may be the answer for soon after the menopause, so the fertility hormones, oestrogen and faint. Hearing disturbances, dementia. And at present women So, what can you do on a some women. problem wasn’t crucial. Today progesterone, begins to fluctuate. tinnitus. restless legs. Changes to are at double the risk of getting daily basis to help enjoy your In Davina McCall’s recent women are living up to 50 years The symptoms you experi- gut and bowel health. Allergies Alzheimer’s Disease than men. ‘Second Spring’? There are Channel 4 documentary; ‘Sex, after the menopause, so we want ence are mainly due to these and heart palpitations. Sore So what are the options for four things; reduce stress, good Myths and the Menopause’, she to make sure that all women are fluctuations. This usually occurs joints and muscles. Extreme women? The GP can prescribe nourishing food, gentle exercise explained to us how women into living as well and healthy a life between the ages of 45-50. Some fatigue. Emotional; loss of joy, HRT tablets, gels or transdermal and plenty of rest. Get into a their 90s can enjoy full orgasm, after the menopause as before. younger, some older. This stage being tearful, suicidal thoughts patches or sprays. With the gels routine of going to bed early and showed us a few toys to play There is a feeling that the can last up to six years. and feelings of “I’m going and patches the hormones can (approx. 10pm), and keep your with! So that’s the good news medical establishment have Menopause is the medical mad!” be absorbed directly through the core body temperature low at ladies! not always served women to term for when you have not had When women haven’t felt Suggested reading, Dr. Avrum skin and into the bloodstream, bedtime. Activities like yoga, their best ability. When women a period for 12 months. Doctors listened to and there has been Bluming, ‘Oestrogen Matters’. avoiding the gut. To help with Pilates, walking in nature, cy- have presented with various use it to determine the end of a lack of understanding, they vaginal atrophy, where the tissue symptoms, sometimes they your fertility. The average age have felt like they were in a very has become thin and less elastic, have been wrongly diagnosed of menopause in Ireland is 52. lonely place. intravaginal gels/oestrogen with depression and put on Symptoms are linked to the Women have been taking pessaries can be prescribed. And anti-depressants, when in fact withdrawal of oestrogen. All HRT (Hormone Replacement symptoms can go away. There the cause of their problem was cells in the body respond to oes- Therapy) since the 1930s. In are lubricants to help with one’s hormonal. But this is changing trogen. Symptoms can include 2002 a research paper linked sex life. There are menopause and women need to go to their heavier or even continuous men- the taking of HRT with breast

Bantry Bay Lions Club Diary he Bantry Bay Lions and Lions Clubs throughout Ireland have responded to the crisis facing the Indian healthcare system by raising $66,100 as part of a major campaign Torganised by the Lions Clubs International Foundation. The Bantry Bay Lions donated €500 to this fund. Lions in Ireland have a long history of providing support when a major disaster strikes. The recent upsurge of COVID-19 cases in India and an increasing death rate threatened to overwhelm their Health System. Lions Clubs International has responded by providing funds, which are enabling Lions Clubs throughout India to purchase and distribute critical medical equipment and supplies for local hospitals and clinics. This has been determined to be the greatest need, as community healthcare systems are being overrun. Lions Clubs in Ireland and the communities that support their work have been very generous in responding to this appeal. The Ambassador of India to Ireland, HE Sandeep Kumar is pictured with Des Ryan, District Governor of the Irish Lions. Am- bassador Kumar expressed his personal appreciation for the support and generosity to the people of Ireland, in supporting India during its current COVID-19 crisis. 36 July 2 – August 5, 2021 people Health & Lifestyle Losing weight without harming your health

38-year-old mother of joined a gym, got herself a per- I thought I would share this changes. one reached out to me sonal trainer and was exercising story because advice like this Can you imagine what it recently she was feeling everyday. is really bad for your health. It would be like to lose weight and Areally anxious and desperately This particular lady contacted puts the body into starvation feel better without going to the wanted to have another child. me looking for a second option, mode, leads to nutritional defi- gym or calorie counting? She had been trying for a year as she had been advised to ciencies, cravings and difficulty What would it mean to and her doctor told her that she consume no more than 1200 sustaining weight loss long- you to naturally balance your needed to loss 2.7 kg before she calories daily. Her trainer had term. It also increases stress, hormones and improve your would be considered for IVF. told her all that mattered was negatively affects fertility and fertility? Amanda Roe She had suffered with postnatal the calorific quantity of the food hormone balance, and can even What would it feel like to Trauma therapist depression and found it really she was eating and if that meant lead to blood sugar problems. stop emotionally eating? & Mind coach difficult to lose the weight from she only ate chocolate that was So what is good advice? How would your life be her first pregnancy. So she ok. There are so many dieting different if changing your diet options out there that work for improved your mood? some and not for all and that If you are curious or would is the key point. We are all like to discuss an approach that individuals and, if you’ve been is personalised to your needs struggling with weight issues please get in touch, as I am Take Back Your Health for a while, and particularly cravings are a sign of nutritional looking forward to hearing from if your ultimate goal is to deficiencies that can be correct- you. Mental and Emotional get pregnant, then a tailored ed quickly and easily. Trauma, PTSD, Anxiety, Stress, Depression, approach will help you to get to Our hormones are influenced Amanda Roe is an Acupunc- Addiction, Worry, Anger, Grief, Fear, Panic, know your body better, balance by what we eat and simple turist, Clinical hypnotherapist your hormones, have easier dietary changes can relieve and Life and Health Coach, Gut Health and Eating Disorders periods, support your sleep and PMT, PCOS, regulate periods, providing natural solutions for Emotional eating, Cravings, Weightloss, IBS improve your energy levels and alleviate anxiety and improve your mental, emotional and Control issues, OCD, ADHD, Autism, Dyslexia. mental health. your mood. hormonal health. I often work with women So yes it is possible to lose Natural Hormone Balancing who are already eating a healthy weight whilst improving your For more information call or Fertility, Pregnancy Care, Fatigue, Insomnia diet yet still struggling with health and balancing your hor- text 087 633 1898 or email Dysfunctional Bleeding, Anemia, Menopause. their weight and cravings for mones gracefully from puberty [email protected] Solutions for Children, Teens, Adults and Parents bread, sugar, chocolate and through your fertility years and caffeine. In my experience into menopause through dietary Amanda Roe 087 633 1898 / [email protected]

Covid-19 and me Kinsale’s Robbie to walk 188 km to raise funds for anxiety there... Then suddenly, hard to talk to my friends on- it impacts your day even if the everything stopped. line, it became almost awkward, conversation is as riveting as There was a virus and sud- there was nothing to talk about. the water or coffee filters! CUH and GUH denly I felt as though everyone Every day in quarantine felt the I got help though. insale man Robert up in my routine blood test and around me felt my anxiety too, same; wake, breakfast, online Through the gradual easing O’Leary will undertake a I was encouraged to go to A&E which I guess made me feel a school, exercise, mindless dis- and then almost opening up of 188 km journey this July, in CUH. Following more tests little less alone, for a while at tractions in the form of screens, society, friends and family, I be- Kvirtually walking from Galway there, I was referred to Dr Una least. be it my phone, TV or a com- gan to to care a bit more about University Hospital to Cork Gilligan in Haematology CUH, Two weeks off school looked puter; I felt like I was floating in myself, then a bit more about University Hospital. His goal which led to more blood tests, like the best thing for me, I a daze of either uncertainty or others. While it was a slow pro- is to raise much-needed funds biopsies and scans confirming could reset, I could re-evaluate dullness. But everyone felt like cess, things started to brighten; for Haematology CUH and the that I had Multiple Myeloma my feelings, and hopefully go me. Mom said, “we’re all in it we went back to school, I got Stem Cell Unit GUH, services Cancer. back to Third Year and sit my together, everyone feels shit”. a job, I started thinking that for which he is very grateful after “Three months later I started As a young person Junior Cert with more clarity But how did that make it ok? perhaps I can live well in this a personal battle with Multiple weekly chemotherapy, steroids than before; maybe this short As the weeks turned to weird Covid world. Myeloma Cancer. and bone strengthening treatment living in West Cork, break would even get me better months, I did my Junior Cert Talking helps so much. “I’d like to say thank you at Dunmanway Day Unit in Maeve Kingston, 17, a grades? I was apprehensive of online, I baked sourdough, I Sometimes I think just a for the wonderful care and CUH. Luckily, I was suitable for attention I received throughout Stem Cell Treatment and this be- Transition Year student, the virus but not too worried. painted. I tried so hard to create twenty-minute chat with a good Then two weeks turned to a normal way of living for friend helps me more than my illness,” Robert explains. gan my journey to GUH Galway, shares how the past three, four, seven… myself but I found the lack of anything else. “Sadly, most of us have been putting it simply, to have some year-and-a-half has My period of self-evaluation social interaction really makes For so long I felt as though touched by cancer in some way. of my stem cells collected and I’m appealing to clubs, families treated. Two months later I un- impacted on her well- was long over at this stage, I you self-absorbed in a bad way it was me against the world. reached out, I got the help I or, at least for me, not being Lockdown made me shut down and individuals to please donate derwent the stem cell transplant, being. needed, everything was moder- reminded every day that there and become harsh and critical and to virtually join me on my after which I was ambulanced ately fine again…so why wasn’t were other people and life out of myself but the gradual easing journey to help two very worthy from GUH to CUH to spend 28 ockdown, Coronavirus, I going back to school? there, made me feel self-con- of restrictions has helped me to causes.” days in isolation. Given all of our where to even begin, My normal anxiety was scious. realise that I’m not alone. There In August 2015, Robert was experience with COVID, maybe looking forward to his retire- some readers can empathise with you’ve taken so much replaced with a feeling of im- I began to worry about my is help out there, you just have ment from 30 years of service in that experience.” Lfrom all of us, yet you have pending dread; a dull feeling in looks, my food, my exercise to ask for it or accept it. Lilly, when he planned to further Robert’s stem cell treatment also given us new perspectives the pit of my stomach came and – nothing really mattered, I think the lockdown, in fact pursue his love of GAA and was successful and his cancer is on life. stayed for months. When will including other people’s the pandemic in general, really walking. However, these plans now in remission. He is eternally At least that’s the case for everything go back to normal? problems. I genuinely began to made me realise how important me. When this whole thing were severely interrupted by grateful for the kindness and The amusement with lockdown hate my own company. To be people are…especially the the outcome of a visit to his GP support of medical staff, as well started, I was finding things lessened altogether. This wasn’t perfectly honest, looking back people around me. about a minor unrelated medical as his family and friends. already difficult; we were build- a joke anymore. I never realised the importance problem. To donate and find out more ing up to the Pre Junior Cert I noticed myself withdrawing of something like talking to “Two days later I got a call about Robert’s journey go to exams at school and there was from my family and it became someone in a coffee shop; how saying something had shown www.idonate.ie/robbieswalk July 2 – August 5, 2021 37 people Health & Lifestyle

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The Bazaar ety of dishes could be sampled. Kathryn Kingston and items of craft and clothing. also sparked interest from fur- Watch this space and keep an Kitty Sisson of the The focal point of the after- ther afield with coverage of the eye on social media! Clonakilty Friends of noon was a welcome by co-or- event by Algerian TV channel In addition to all the stall- dinator Doria Sibanda who said: Elnnarah TV. holders, Kathryn Kingston Asylum Seekers com- “This event is about community Reflecting on the day, Olive would like to thank those who mittee (CFOAS). integration and it initiates our Walsh said that Doria’s words made the afternoon possible and collective journey towards exemplified the ethos of the the success that it was: Colette oria is originally from creating a community where CFOAS project, which is Twomey, Mayor Anthony Zimbabwe but is now no one feels isolated, lonely indeed that together we are McDermott, the Spiller’s Lane living and working or sad due to their background stronger and that we all belong. Traders, West Cork Develop- Din Clonakilty. Using funding or inabilities. We are aiming Kitty Sisson added that she ment Partnership, The CFOAS secured from the Department of for a united community, which felt it had been a wonderful Committee, and the Depart- Justice’s Community Integra- respects and values humanity.” afternoon and that the positive ment of Justice. The event was tion Fund, the initial concept Doria then introduced response of the town and visi- recorded through picture and was for a series of events to Mayor Anthony McDermott tors from further away had been video by Martin Walsh and promote the theme of a ‘New who echoed her words with a much appreciated by all those Maurice Supple respectively; Taste for West Cork’ to reflect As soon as restrictions lifted accommodates over thirty warm speech focusing on the who had gone to such great ef- and all kind donations received the area’s growing diverse sufficiently to allow a small families seeking International importance of integration, and forts to showcase their different will be put directly towards population, however, as with outdoor event, the organisers Protection at any one time, were welcoming new families to cultures. She noted that while CFOAS projects in supporting so many community initiatives revived their plans. Residents invited to cook sample snacks Clonakilty’s vibrant and diverse the restrictions around Covid the residents of Clonakilty during 2020 and early 2021, the of Clonakilty Lodge Direct and delicacies for tasting, and to community. The speeches were 19 had placed some limits on Lodge. project had to be postponed. Provision Centre, which display items of fashion, craft followed by a colourful parade what food could be prepared, 38 July 2 – August 5, 2021 people Health & Lifestyle Is fasting good for you? verybody seems to be about intermittent fasting, not tent fasting, what it is, and what glucose will go up. After about that you wake in the night, don’t talking about fasting fasting for days or weeks. Mus- it does to your physiology. four to five hours you will need function well unless you eat, these days and the im- cle loss will occur if fasting for To understand fasting phys- to eat again to maintain your or get cranky when you skip Epression that I get from articles extended periods, as your body iology we need to talk a little blood glucose levels, hence the meals, fasting may not be the I am reading is that it is good starts to cannibalise your own about blood sugar. If you have usual gap between meals of four best solution for you. In fact for everyone. But that is not muscles to stabilise your blood read my previous articles about to five hours during the day. you may have lower-than-op- strictly true. For the purpose sugar and this is not advisable. blood glucose you will know At night, especially if you timal blood sugar and fasting of this article, I am talking here So let’s talk about intermit- that when you eat, your blood are eating your evening meal at should be avoided – You may 6pm and your breakfast at 8am, even need to eat more regular- you will have had approximate- ly and focus on eating more ly 13 hours of fasting, and in protein and healthy fats to order for your body to maintain Eoin Roe keep your blood sugar stable a good level of blood glucose, throughout the day and the your body will have to produce Chiropractic night. glucose in the liver by burning The general advice, which fats and proteins. Your body is good for everybody is to eat will do this automatically while fasting may be part of the three meals a day and have a you are asleep. solution for you. 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Ireland and other countries, following day of a €700,000 many of the feted centrepieces fund for LGBTI+ services. of international celebrations, the The Community Services Fund Pride Parades, were once again will improve access to services largely conducted on-screen, it across Ireland for LGBTI+ peo- was a month that saw highs and ple, and ensure LGBTI+ people lows. are supported in realising their Pride is a month of celebra- rights and freedoms. Good news tion, when the international indeed! LGBTIQ+ community literally Following on from the uplift- and metaphorically ‘paint’ the ing flag-re-raising ceremony in world with a rainbow of colour! Waterford, over the following It’s also, however, a month of days dates were being set for a Retirement activism, and sadly this year post-Pride travelling exhibition GROUNDED there was much to protest. of the ‘Grá Abu’ poster-cam- This year marks the last teaching year for Ms Marti An occasional column by National and International paign, with galleries and spaces McCarthy, as she retires Grace O’Sullivan – mother, attacks on the LGBTIQ+ com- already lined up to show the The EU has been declared to a call-out from Déise Pride from teaching at MICC environment and peace munity were disturbing. Most work of Donal Talbot and particularly, Hungary’s banning an LGBTI Freedom Zone and asking the people of their city to the many other artists whose Dunmanway. activist, ecologist, MEP these incidents highlight the support them in flying rainbow the dissemination of content images brought such an uplift to Marti’s passion for her need to stand firm and be out- flags. In a further response that Grace, a mother of three from in schools deemed to promote Waterford. With dates already subjects of English and Tramore, Co.Waterford, spent 20 homosexuality and gender spoken on issues and discrim- saw over 40 artists coming on confirmed in Waterford, Dublin ination that are a daily part of board, Waterford-based Dublin History has been evident years working with Greenpeace and change was unforgiveable. The and Wexford, it looks set to throughout her career. was a crewmember of the Rainbow level of international objection life for many members of the artist Donal Talbot called for a travel even further afield. Warrior, when it was bombed by the Just last month she shared has made it clear that this sort of the LGBTIQ+ community. counter-campaign of joy: ‘Grá Carrying on with the roll- French Foreign Intelligence Service some models created by exclusionary political deci- As a Waterford woman, I was Abu, an Artist’s Protest’. Over ercoaster theme of Pride this in 1985. She served as a Senator for appalled when the Rainbow the space of just 24 hours, local her Second Year histori- three years, before being elected to sion-making won’t be tolerated. month, further controversy Pride flags were torn from flag- support kicked off through a ans, which made it all the the European Parliament, where That’s why, as a member of the erupted when UEFA refused a way to Twitter, receiving she is a proactive and outspoken European Parliament’s LGBTI poles near council buildings in postering campaign that saw request from the city mayor to member of important commit- Intergroup and a strong ally of Waterford on not one, but two positive messages being spread illuminate the Munich football attention from all around tees on Fisheries (PECH), and the LGBTIQ+ community, I nights. Waterford Mayor Dam- throughout the city. stadium in a rainbow of light the country. Environment, Public Health and ien Geoghegan was quick to Over the same 24 hours, Marti was also a Food Safety (ENVI). She is also a was vocal in my condemnation ahead of a match against Hun- of Hungary’s actions and called voice his condemnation and to Mount Misery, a large rock gary. While UEFA’s stance was member of the Special member of delegations on Mercosur insist, as I agree, that Waterford face overlooking the Waterford and Palestine, and a member of a it out as a violation of basic, deeply disappointing, the out- Education Needs De- number of working groups. She fundamental human rights. is a welcoming, inclusive city Quays, was painted with a rain- break of international condem- partment and her valued is Green Party Spokesperson on This year’s Pride also looked that will not tolerate discrimi- bow and given a new nickname: nation of the decision was some contributions helped many Environmental Protection, Natural set to be sullied by homopho- nation. Pride Rock. comfort and yet again showed students reach their full Resources, Marine and Tourism. bia and transphobia on the More insult was to fol- Minister for Equality Roderic that intolerance, homophobia potential. low, when overnight, posters O’Gorman made the next ges- home front, with vandalism in and transphobia are becoming The school community appeared around Waterford ture of positive solidarity, when Waterford and Dublin involving more and more unacceptable at MICC thanked Marti t a local, national and under the banner of ‘straight he arrived in the Déise with the international level, June graffiti in Dublin and Rainbow amongst progressive members and wished her well in her Pride flags being taken from pride,’ advertising the benefits gift of two new rainbow flags, of society, the world over. has been quite the Pride of ‘straight’ marriage. Waterford which were raised ahead of the retirement. AMonth. In a year in which, in flagpoles in Waterford. reacted quickly in response Minister’s announcement the July 2 – August 5, 2021 39 people Health & Lifestyle Understanding the ‘I’ in LGBT QI+

In this month’s article, I will and ambiguous genitals. surgical limitations, genital LGBTI+ try to give a brief overview of As you can see, intersex reconstructive surgery of an MATTERS what ‘intersex’ (or ‘variations is a very complex topic with ambiguous genitalia most of sex development’, as they are lots of different outcomes and often means creating a female BRÓD is an LGBTI+ also often referred by) is, and manifestations. Many people genitalia (as it is easier to take Community Group based in hopefully further the under- with intersex conditions identify something away rather than West Cork. A mix of LGBTI+ standing of this complex topic. as typical women or men. Most to create), independent of the people and allies, the group’s As stated in one of my earlier people with CAH for example underlying intersex condition. mission is to ‘Support, articles about definitions of the identify as women and often While for many people with Advocate and Increase LGBTQI+ terminology, intersex don’t even want to be labelled CAH, for example, this feels Visibility’ for the LGBTI+ is the only group within the LG- as intersex. like the right decision and is in community in West Cork. BTQI+ spectrum, that is con- Most individuals with CAIS line with their gender identity, sidered a ‘medical condition’ or identify as women and except many people with Intersex where there is a physiological for being infertile, don’t see conditions feel that they have are variations in this develop- There is also a ‘Partial An- and biological causality. themselves any different to a been ‘mutilated’ or ‘castrated’ ment, which can either take drogen Insensitivity Syndrome’ Generally speaking, Intersex woman with XX chromosomes. and would have wished to have place on the chromosomal or PAIS for short. In this case, is defined as a condition in Other people however do iden- kept their genitals or at least level, gonadal level, or genital there is also a XY embryo that which not all sex characteristics tify as intersex and claim (and have given a choice to have a level, which results in not all develops gonads that produce of a person align to one sex and fight hard for the right) to not say in their treatment. All which sex-defining characteristics to testosterone. But here, only gender. Some intersex condi- be defined as male or female, as isn’t possible as an infant or be aligned to one sex. What this some of the androgen receptors tions become apparent at birth it does not relate to their lived young child. means is that the term ‘Intersex’ are insensitive, but not all. This (for example when a child is experience and reality of their After working with many doesn’t refer to one specific means that testosterone can born with ambiguous genitalia), bodies. different people with varia- condition or identity, but is far partly be absorbed and come to other intersex conditions don’t The biggest challenge and tions of sex development and a more umbrella term for many effect, but not to its full capac- become apparent until puberty controversy in regard to intersex intersex conditions, and their different possible conditions. ity. This leads to an under-de- when the expected pubertal and variations of sex develop- families, I am a strong advocate One of the most common velopment of the internal and development either fails to set ment is in regard to the medical of postponing any surgical variations of sex development is external genitalia and children in or goes a different way than treatment of these conditions. interventions until at least ado- a condition called ‘Congenital with PAIS are born with ambig- expected. Until very recently, the medical lescence so that the individual Adrenal Hyperplasia’ or CAH uous genitals. To understand this better, it understanding has been that can decide themself if or what for short. In these cases, a XX In another condition (5alpha is helpful to quickly refresh our any child born with ambigu- kind of medical interventions Lisa Brinkmann is a embryo is exposed to high reductase deficiency) children general understanding of sex ous genitalia should undergo they would like, that might be Clinical Psychologist and levels of testosterone during appear female at birth but will development. genital ‘reconstructing’ surgery. most in accordance with their pregnancy, which can lead to a develop male at puberty. In Psychotherapist working in Biologically speaking, our This means invasive surgery gender and sexual identity. Be masculinisation of the exter- these cases, the chromosomes private practice in Clon- sex is defined on three different to a very sensitive area of the that male, female, intersex, or nal genitals at birth (enlarged in the embryo are XY and akilty and is one of the levels: Genetically through our body at a very young age, often anything else for that matter. clitoris). the internal genitalia develop chromosomes (XX for female requiring multiple surgeries What this requires though is core members of BROD. Another common form is a male. Due to a deficiency in a and XY for male), through throughout childhood to accom- emotional and psychological Lisa also has a degree in condition called ‘Complete An- hormone responsible for testos- our gonads and their specific modate the growing body. support for the young children Sex Research and Forensic drogen Insensitivity Syndrome’ terone production, testosterone hormone production (ovaries in In recent years, this has been and their families to embrace or CAIS for short. In these isn’t produced in utero, which Psychiatry and works with woman and testis in men) and questioned more and more, es- the uniqueness and variation cases, a XY embryo develops results in the development clients with any psycholog- through our external genitalia. pecially from adult people with of their child’s sex and gender gonads that produce testoster- of female external genitalia. ical or mental health prob- So typically, a man has XY intersex conditions. Many have rather than pathologising and one, but due to insensitivity However, at puberty testoster- chromosomes, testis with high experienced the repeated surger- shaming it. And it also requires lem, but is also specialised of the androgen receptors, the one production is not impaired, testosterone production and ies on their genitals and hospital society at large to be far more in the area of sexuality and testosterone cannot be absorbed so a male development takes male external genitalia (penis stays throughout childhood as tolerant and accepting of gender. Lisa is also a proud and come to effect in the body. place then. and scrotum). A woman has traumatising. Many also argue different biological and physical As a result, the internal and Another (very rare) inter- mother of two young girls XX chromosomes, ovaries with that such surgeries should realities. external genitalia don’t develop sex condition is called ‘True and lives with her family in high oestrogen and progester- not be performed without the While we have come a long typically male, but are female Hermaphroditism’. In these West Cork. one production and female geni- individual’s consent and that way in raising awareness and instead. At birth, these children conditions, the embryo has talia (vagina and clitoris). This parents and doctors shouldn’t tolerance in regard to LGBT are identified as female. cells with XX chromosomes, as he ‘I’ in the LGBT QI+ development and differentiation have the right to consent on this matters, we still have a fair bit However at time of puberty, well as cells with XY chromo- abbreviations is one of takes place during the first few on their behalf. of work cut out for ourselves menstruation doesn’t take place somes, which can result in the the least talked about and months of pregnancy. Another critical aspect of when it comes to the ‘I’. and this is often when the CAIS development of both ovaries Tleast understood. In intersex conditions, there these surgeries is that, due to is discovered. and testis (or a fusion of both)

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To order a copy go to www. k [email protected] Frankie has now travelled frankiethefly.ie. www.samirabranchacupuncture.com 40 July 2 – August 5, 2021 people Health & Lifestyle The sheer joy of July well worth mastering. I didn’t convinced that they are celebrat- Clothes will not transform like and share those posts and have much of a choice when I ing themselves and I think that you into something that you five seconds later we might had twin babies, I had to learn to the rest of us should follow their be really unkind to ourselves, plan and make the absolute most wonderful example. are not..... you are destroying terribly critical when left with of my time. There were sudden- Our incredible brains are your sense of self and depriv- our own thoughts. It has been ly two infants who rarely slept at continually scanning for poten- ing yourself of the wonderful a weary time for all of us, we the same time (they each needed tial threats and deleting what is are disillusioned, feel hard done their own cuddle time) but when not a threat. That worked really experience that shopping by, maybe even cranky. I had to they did sleep together, I used well when we were living in can and should be. There are catch myself the other day, as my time like Usain Bolt runs a hunter-gatherer times or when so many different items of I started to feel really old; my race, determined, focused, with everyone was involved in more boys have finished secondary a well-worked-out plan and physical work. Now we have clothes out there, there are school and I already had my IMAGE end goal in sight. The same has machines and devices to do so many shops waiting for daughter at the age that she is to be said about the world of everything and so our brain has you to give them a chance, so now. I could have run with those Louise O’Dwyer style, great style takes oodles evolved to have us questioning thoughts but instead I ran around Image Consultant of planning. You very rarely ourselves instead ALL OF THE many ‘looks’ that you hav- the garden with my boxer and get everything that you set out TIME. Am I thin enough? Am en’t even tried yet that will threw his squeaky toy for him – to buy on a shopping trip and, I pretty enough? Will I ever be? make you feel like you have that alone makes him so happy. if you do, the style gods were What can I do to change how There is nothing more important id you know that the obviously smiling down on you. I look? Am I a failure because won a million dollars! or precious to him than to watch month of July was once Building a wardrobe full of sen- I can’t lose weight? Our com- that toy flying through the air called Quintilis? Well, sational style that transfers onto plicated brain that is constantly and adjusting his body so that it Dneither did I but I recently dis- your body and looks effortless analysing everything can be lands in his mouth. Totally and covered it when I was reading initially takes many many hours crippling at times, so we need to completely in the moment, how an article about the infamous Ju- and days over all of the seasons. learn to turn the volume down many of us remind ourselves to lius Caesar! When he died, this ‘Giving up’ happens a lot, I hear as much as we can. Somebody stay in the moment! After ten month was renamed July in his about it all the time. I’m telling asked me for my ‘best ever minutes I was exhausted, lying honour. I will bet that you most you to NEVER give up on want- style tip for someone who on the grass covered in slobber definitely needed to know that! ing to look good, do you hear really struggles when they go and I felt timeless, ageless and Spiritually, July is the month me? You will be bombarded by shopping’. Here goes… Make content. a million adverts that will tell sure that your blueprint of what Make a promise to yourself when change and transformation be. There are so many different half hungover, inwardly cursing, you that you can’t look good un- you want to see in the mirror this July, the month of change of all kinds is asked of us and items of clothes out there, there as you try for an eternity to til you buy this designer jacket when you are fitting on clothes and transformation, that you it tends to be the month that is are so many shops waiting for find parking and maybe even or this outrageously priced pot is not a million miles from how will enjoy yourself, enjoy every dedicated to freedom, inde- you to give them a chance, so on an empty stomach? Those of chemicals (face cream) or you actually look. This is why moment, live in the moment, pendence and culture. When it many ‘looks’ that you haven’t Instagram divas who always that designer handbag with the so many struggle to buy clothes. take your sense of humour with comes to style, July is the month even tried yet that will make you look so perfect, if you only saw logo for everyone to see…there It is never because the clothes you when you go shopping and that we dedicate to summer feel like you have won a million them without make-up, you will always be someone selling don’t fit or because they can’t watch how that transforms the dresses, cute flip flops, hairstyles dollars! Get experimenting by would question if it was really you something that you don’t find anything, it is because they entire experience. Turn down that come together in a flash and putting in the time and do as the same person. Celebrities need. What you do need to do are being unrealistic. Clothes the volume of that voice in floral body sprays. much research as you can. What are continually showered with is to start with what you have function by complementing your head that tells you that Killing two birds with one I mean by research is to start by designer gear and can pick and and where you are and how you how you already look, they can you are not enough and dance, stone has always been ‘my picking apart what you have, choose the best of the best to look now. There are billions of flatter or drain you but they whenever and wherever you thing’…well, sometimes it’s then make a list of what you wear. I really hope that every tiny cells inside of your body WILL NOT TRANSFORM can, especially when you are all killing as many birds as I can need – and be realistic – keep part of you, even down to those rooting and cheering for you YOU INTO SOMETHING alone. If you buy nothing but a at the same time! Here I am, that list in your diary or in the microscopic cells, acknowledges every day. Do them the return THAT YOU ARE NOT. If you hair clip this summer but you typing on the laptop with a face notes on your phone and add this so that you can retire from favour of being grateful for what are not the tallest person in the change your approach to how mask on (the best of local honey or delete as necessary. And that quest that you have been on, they do for you. No matter what, world and all that you have you look and how you shop for dehydrated skin) and my for God’s sake, LEARN TO for the longest time, to replicate they are your biggest and most ever wanted is a gorgeous fitted (especially when you walk away feet in a dish of Epsom salts and LAUGH AT YOURSELF, es- so-called perfection. It is only faithful cheerleading squad, and trouser suit; yet every time you without anything) then you have warm water (magnesium uptake, pecially in a dressing room and then that shopping will become some say (from a neuroscientific go shopping, you waste so much mastered the most important toxin elimination and beautiful promise me that you will never the loveliest experience, a real perspective) that, even down time fitting on suits and every steps involved in building a suc- feet). So, when I hear someone leave in tears, deflated or soul treat. YOU will take YOUR- to a cellular level, your body time you look a child in a First cessful wardrobe that will make say that they ‘don’t have time’ to destroyed. Rome was not built SELF shopping, not some far hears and understands how you Communion suit – why would you feel good and look great. do simple pampering and feel- in a day, those glossy magazines flung idealistic version of your- feel about it. Imagine that! You you do that to yourself? The ‘For once, you believed in good treats, what I actually hear pay stylists big money to put self. Sounds good, doesn’t it? know those people who dance parameters will not change but yourself, you believed you were is ‘I couldn’t be bothered’ or ‘I that image that you are drooling We were all well versed in by themselves when no one is you are destroying your sense beautiful and so did the rest of don’t know how to manage my at together, yet you expect to the BE KIND movement, as a looking? Well, I’m now firmly of self and depriving yourself the world.’ Sarah Dessen time effectively’. This is a skill find the outfit on a Saturday result of the untimely death of of the wonderful experience morning rushed trip to the city, Caroline Flack. All of us would that shopping can and should

Glengarriff Defibrillator Group Cork County Council’s beach welcomes great turnout for training lifeguard team returns for summer in CPR and defribrillator use ith the return of the official bathing season, Cork County Coun- cil’s beach lifeguard team is ready to oversee the safety of the he Glengarriff Defibrilla- fibrillator. These will be distrib- public in the water off the beautiful County Cork coast. The beach Wlifeguard team has adopted a ‘Safe on the Sand and in the Sea’ motto this tor Group held CPR and uted to all homes and business- Defibrillator training re- es in Glengarriff, should anyone year, with lifeguards advising a ‘Swim and Go’ policy to avoid large gather- ings of people on our beaches. Tcently ahead of the installation ever need a contact number for Cork Co. Co. has 39 full-time beach lifeguards, with a back-up team of Glengarriff’s new defibril- assistance. ready to support if required. The service is now on duty full time until the lator in the coming weeks. A Names will be taken for end of August and the first two weekends of September, with the last day of great number of people turned further CPR and Defibrillator duty being September 12, 2021. The hours of duty are 10.30am-7pm daily. out for it. training in the coming months. Lifeguards will raise their Red and Yellow Flags to indicate when they are A fridge magnet will be cre- Please make contact via the on duty. ated in the coming weeks with Glengarriff Defibrillator Group With County Cork hosting 19 per cent of the country’s coastline, the the names and numbers of those Facebook page if you wish to Council’s Beach Lifeguards will monitor the safety of swimmers on 12 Cork beaches – in West Cork at Inchydoney East and West, Owenahincha, The volunteers who are trained in join in. Warren, Tragumna and Barleycove Beaches, and at the Old Head of Kinsale CPR and the operation of a de- in Garrylucas and Garretstown. July 2 – August 5, 2021 41 people Health & Lifestyle Brand new beauty buys

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Realise with the intention of losing balance, speed and strength and weight, but to get the endor- you are lucky, that your body, in weight and looking fitter. I am offers support in being social phins flowing and feel good this moment, is right where it is, here to tell you, as we are pass- and playing games together. about yourself. A brisk walk, allowing you to see and expe- ing into hopefully the height of As we grow older into teenage jog or run, cycle or even dance rience this. It will lift your state summer, being comfortable in years and then adulthood, we around in the living room – of mind and hopefully translate DIY FITNESS your own skin is not just about can still use sport and fitness anything above 10-15 minutes into lifting the way you think the numbers on your scale. to challenge ourselves, learn or should trigger your endorphins about your body as well. Tania Presutti I know many people who suf- refine skills, and come together production – would get you Take these three small actions fer from distorted body image, with like-minded people and there. Remember to tell yourself into the summer to feel better who look fit and toned on the make it a part of our social life. you did a great job and thank about yourself and your body. Danish freelance journalist outside, but inside still only see Training will boost your your body for being able to do And then take your body to and fitness professional Tania the flaws and feel like they’re mood and make you sleep better this. Do it every day if you have the beach and step out of your Presutti, who now resides in not good enough. I know some at night, and in the autumn of the time. It’ll lift the way you comfort zone, and join the ‘bi- Clonakilty, delivers a series of of the most beautiful and strong, your life, it will keep your body feel and think about yourself. kini-body’ army of women who efficient DIY fitness exercises passionate and on-top-of-their- strong and provide more protec- Secondly, look at the seasonal for a moment accept and love you can do at home. game women, who still fail to tion for your bones, than if you produce. Summer is a great time who they are. Reclaim your see their own beauty. were not training. to eat naturally healthy, as the body as it is, don’t sit another So my July column is dedi- Training for me is more market is brimming with fresh summer hiding under a big f you want a bikini body cated to everyone who looks in than getting a bikini body, big vegetables and fruit. Make your summer dress or a one-piece, if – put on a bikini’. That’s the mirror and is overly critical: biceps, flat washboard abs and plates pretty, as we often eat what you really want it to wear a sentiment we hear Anyone who has ever been toned legs. It’s about celebrating opinion about how you look. with our eyes first, so take the a bikini. ‘Ievery summer and, while it’s called fat, chubby, ugly or feels your body and what it is capable Opinions are like a certain extra time and make yourself The summer is yours. true, it’s not easy for everybody unworthy of love. Whatever of. It is knowing that you’re body part – everybody has one, a beautiful plate of food. Do to dress down even on the hot flaws your body has – injuries, doing something good for and nobody else needs to hear this especially on days where Comments and questions are as days. Thankfully it seems that excess kilos, how you were yourself, taking time for you so about it. you are tempted to stress or ‘fill always welcome at more and more women just born – your body is your body. you also can be more for those However I do sympathise if the hole’ by eating rubbish or [email protected] don’t care what society and me- It should be celebrated for car- around you. you tell me: ‘I don’t feel com- unhealthy processed foods; use or via Instagram dia think, and are escaping the rying you through life and not This summer, I implore you fortable wearing less clothes this trick to spoil yourself in a @trainwithadane summer heat on the beach with be a reason for shame or guilt. once again to get up, get out even though I really want to different manner than eating their bodies in bikinis. The core Of course I am a huge advo- there and enjoy the summer in because I’m not used to letting sweets. By making your food of my belief is that all bodies cate for training and fitness. I a bikini or a one piece. Don’t my body shine’. If that’s what pretty, you are also also telling are beautiful, so this column is think fitness is just as important bother with other people’s is holding you back, please read yourself, you are worth the

Engaging with your dog in a meaningful manner to help them keep going. on the particular one. ‘This is es to do anything or performs Juno was delighted to see such fun’, she said and I found a command with a sulky, bad me come home but not so myself laughing and enjoying grace. I saw this first hand with impressed with the fact that her enthusiasm. ‘What else a man who was a perfectionist I settled down to type up my would you like me to do?’ and a bit of a control freak. report immediately after lunch. That’s when I asked her for When I first saw his puppy, she She was very good and lay all the tricks I’d taught her. was lively and certainly had a quietly near me while I worked. So she spun and twirled like a bit of attitude. He trained her Her only sign of impatience was dervish on command, played so hard that the next time I saw when she kicked her back legs ‘Peek a Boo’, threaded her way her, she was a very unhappy against the sofa. (She always in and out of my legs, gave me dog who would do nothing for does this to let me know she’s handshakes and waves with her anybody. waiting for action!) right paw and high fives with It’s only necessary to train CANINE CORNER Finally, with the report her left. She was like a breath your dog to perform the com- Liz Mahony wrapped up, I turned to her to of fresh air, totally focused and mands for two to three minutes let her know it was her time. We enjoying herself immensely. per day. That’s plenty. Longer had a cuddle and then I picked After that, we had a game of sessions only make a dog bored Liz Mahony is an experienced up some treats and told her we footie, a short walk to round it and cantankerous! But, even Dog Trainer and Holistic were going to have some fun. I all off, then back home for her when your dog knows all the Therapist for all animals. In her don’t normally carry treats for evening meal. Juno was now commands, it’s no harm to re- monthly column, Liz aims to Juno unless I’m teaching her content with life. I, too, was mind him of them. If you make promote mutual respect between something new and then I might left feeling relaxed and happy. it entertaining and enter into the carer and dog. Contact Liz at use a clicker as well. And it hadn’t taken an awful lot spirit of the game, you’ll get corkdogtrainingclasses.com. She dashed out ahead of of effort. Little Juno had given huge enjoyment just like I did. me and I asked her to perform me so much in that short time. All dogs want is to be part esterday was a busy day all the commands. She did But that’s what dogs do, if we of our lives but in a productive for me. After walking everything with great gus- let them. way. So engage their brains; Juno, I went to see a to. ‘You want me to sit and It doesn’t take much to en- help them reach their potential. Yfamily to help train their puppy stay and come to you from a gage your dog in play. Not only They will continue to surprise never be a chore. If it is, then and encouragement and then distance? That’s easy.’ And she did Juno get ‘quality time’ but you with their ability to problem who was showing signs of run- neither of you enjoys it, and you rewards if she manages it. came at great speed to sit in it was an easy way to reinforce solve. ning wild! When I finally fin- have to ask yourself why. As If it’s all done like that, your front of me gazing into my eyes the training commands. We All they want is someone to ished there, it was home to write far as I’m concerned, teaching dog will be more inclined to for the treat! came away feeling satisfied, take the time to listen to them! up my report in the afternoon. your dog new things is a game. oblige whether you have a treat ‘Which side would you like bonded and both of us in thor- Those reports always take time I ask Juno to show me what she or not in your hand. Never keep me to sit – left or right?’ and as oughly good humour. corkdogtrainingclasses.com because I try to give people all can do. She gets lots of praise training your dog until he refus- the training tips and information I indicated she lined herself up Training your dog should July 2 – August 5, 2021 43 people Arts & Entertainment July and August at Schull’s Blue House Gallery uly may be regarded as late Cork, exploits a technique made opening where galleries are famous during the seventeenth concerned, but the world century for its ability to repro- Jof exhibition has been seriously duce the seductive delicacy of stymied by lockdown. However, gentlemen’s full-bottomed wigs. all was not lost, and the Blue Aoife’s mastery of this powerful House window provided an medium will be a highlight effective sequence of ‘Window of the season. A Blue House Exhibitions’, a bit like window gallery artists’ group shows con- shopping on the Sundays of tinues in the upstairs galleries. yore when shops were closed Helen O’Keeffe’s ‘The Land- for the day. One could look and scape Within’ July 16-August 4 wish. is an intuitive exploration of her Returning to business with surroundings and reflects her a bang, first off the blocks will long–standing fascination with be ‘Clay Maketh Man’ June the coastal landscape of Roaring 25-July 14, which sounds quite Water Bay, that evocative Biblical and indeed, clay is combination of by-roads, wild of course the essence of the hedgerows, half-seen dwellings, creation narrative. Jim Turner, acres of sea and sky that define versatile and ever-inventive, this unique fragment of the a magical maker of things world. In ‘Borders’ July 16-Au- from clay, curates four fellow gust 4, Melanie Black, Nicolas ceramicists, Jim Behan, Geof- Cooper, Geoff Greenham and Inchydonney #1, Nicholas Cooper frey Healy, Markus Jungmann Simon Hill contemplate the and Marcus O’Mahony in a enigmatic nature of real, imag- display of the utilitarian and the inary, physical and emotional outrageous. Aoife Layton June Sea Pinks, Helen O’Keeffe borders in a thought-provoking Set in the midst of Schull 25 - July 14, a printmaker from photographic exhibition. Village on Main Street. The Blue House Gallery showing local, national West Cork singer-songwriter Áine Duffy & international art is open Everyday between releases single to much acclaim 11am and 5 pm from ony Fenton from Today true to her heritage and didn’t Easter to October FM said she “kicks change who she was. ass” and NME’s James Known for her homely Irish THendicot observed she’s “fan- accent that spans across an im- tastically refreshing”. pressive range, the voice, tal- Taking her Irish beacon ent, and persona of Áine Duffy around the world, Bandon is in hot demand. With her Berlin. A true professional with er there’s a patch of land. born singer-songwriter Áine trusted guitar, festivals such as a resume stoked with laurels, So with a run of top-prize Duffy has played in New York, The Electric Picnic and The the road is long, wide and open nominations to tease the talent, Toronto, Los Angeles, London, Body and Soul Festival have for her. a list of television appearances Dubai, Switzerland, Germany, all enjoyed her crowd-grabbing Most recently, Áine Duffy and music use, the release Spain, Belgium, and beyond. appearances. She’s also been has converted an old donkey of ‘I’ll Wear White’ is a true After being invited to record on stage at world-class venues box into a camper, which grand-staircase moment. With with Roger Greenawalt, the such as the Cork Opera House, doubles up as a stage. This plenty of people willing to very same who worked with The Theatre Royal in Water- up-cycled contraption, known take her hand, as she descends Bruce Springfield and Sophie ford, Whelans, Riverbank Arts fondly as the Duffbox, will be into the party, this song is a B Hawkins, Áine Duffy built Theatre, The Middleton Arts the source of many impromptu soundtrack to so many things. a large following. This was Festival, The Irish Animation and pre-booked live shows that Find out more by visit- thanks to the fact she stayed Awards, and Madam Claude’s can literally take place wherev- ing aineduffy.ie.

SUMMER ART CAMP! 19 – 23 July, 2-5 pm Theme: ‘Spirit Animals’ (Ages 9 – 18) • 6 places only • Registrations: www.paintingschool.jameswaller.org

Drawing inspiration from cave paintings, rock carvings, modern art, photographs, comic books and animations, students will embark on a week of drawing, printmaking, painting and book binding. The ‘Spirit Animal’ art camp has been designed as a fun week of imaginative learning; students create their own drawings, prints, paintings and concertina book, whilst learning about other cultures and art forms. The projects set can be approached realistically (we will look at paintings and photographs of animals), imaginatively (we will look at early modernists, such as Marc Chagall and Franz Marc) or stylistically (looking at rock art and cave paintings from ancient cultures).

SUMMER OIL PAINTING CLASSES (ADULT PROGRAM) For July and August only, adult painting classes will resume on Saturdays, 2-5pm. Wednesday and Friday classes will then recommence from September. 44 July 2 – August 5, 2021 people Arts & Entertainment Diary of a Colourist: things Modern, Medieval and Baroque

know which way to turn. Dis- tive art of icon painting. I learnt roque realism (think Rembrandt ‘fugues’, which employ a sys- I am bringing the ‘blue fugues’ covering the mode, or modes of to mix and layer ascending and Caravaggio). The blazing tem of ‘graduated colour notes’. and the ‘Baroque figures’ expression, which best serves notes of colour, methodically colours of my youth have been Azure blue predominates in together. In the process those you, is a major part of one’s developing folds of garments brought to heel; muted and these sequences (it has ever figures are becoming infused creative journey. Likewise, in and skin tones as ‘ladders of blended they have learned to been the colour closest to me). with the blues. And so the jour- looking at art, discovering what light’, following a 1500-year- serve realistic form. This has This is significant as Baroque ney of ever-evolving identity it is you respond to is a big part old aesthetic system as faithful- been, on the one hand, deeply realism largely gives the blues continues… of one’s journey of self-dis- ly as I could. The icon revealed satisfying, and on the other a wide berth. Don’t tell my ‘Balance the Roses’ is showing covery. to me the power of luminous somehow lacking. In none of Baroque buddies, but all these at the Clonakilty Community My very first forays as a light. It also introduced me to my neo-Baroque figures can I years I’ve been binging on blue Art Centre, Asna Square from young painter were under the ‘graduated colour notes’, which feel the ‘mosaic of the soul’, in secret! July 9-30. Open Tues-Sun influence of the modernist, Paul we find in both medieval and that arrangement of colours Finally, in my new collec- 11-5 pm. THE SHAPE Gauguin. His colour arrange- modernist painting (Giotto is which has haunted me since my tion, titled ‘Balance the Roses’, ments (of ‘intermingled notes’) an example of the former and youth. OF THINGS thrilled me with an incredible Paul Klee a good example of Through printmaking, how- sense of recognition; colour sat the latter). ever, I have kept my ‘mod- James Waller beside colour in a seemingly ef- Over the last eight years I ernist’ identity alive, quietly fortless mosaic of the soul, the have immersed myself in Ba- printing sequences of abstract James Waller is an Australian outer world a mantle on which born artist and poet based in to clothe the inner one. My first West Cork. Through this col- self-portrait in oil was like this. umn James explores the world It had none of the slick finesse of art, introducing the reader to and sophistication of a classical major works of art and artists painting; it was raw and dry, its and reflecting on what makes colours modernist and slightly them so engaging. acidic. But it was and remains a true ‘mosaic of soul’, a colour arrangement, which floods olour values in Western me to this day with profound art have undergone recognition and fulfillment. many shifts, from the A few years later, under the Cancient Greek through to the heady influence of Matisse, Medieval, Baroque, Modern I found myself creating large and neo-Baroque. The classical scale ‘cut-outs’, carving Greek values, echoed in the out shapes of flat colour in Renaissance (16th c.) and the rhythms and movements which Baroque (17th c.) are grounded I found spell-binding. I was in earth: their colour value sys- colour-drunk and giddy with tem is one of muted, ‘blended the freedom and beauty of what notes’, striving for realistic por- I had unleashed. One work, trayal. By contrast the medieval titled ‘Angel Dog’, felt like the and the modern are bursting ‘true colour-shapes’ of my soul. with colour; their systems are These works were examples of of ‘graduated notes’, ‘separated ‘separated colour notes’ such notes’ and ‘intermingled notes’. as we see in Matisse’s cut-outs, All of these colour value the paintings of Albers and oth- systems are alive today. Faced er hard-edge abstract painters. with such a plethora of paths it During these colour-drunk can be difficult for a painter to years I also studied the medita- ‘Angel Dog’: textile cut out, 2000 (separated notes). ‘Flower Girl’: oil on canvas, 2021 (intermingled notes).

A summer of art on Sherkin Island

espite the additional will run after that right up until and non-professional artists, challenges of social August 24: July 6-11, Jordyn musicians, writers and pho- distancing, the Sherkin Lynch; July 13-21, Jo Ashby tographers. DIsland community has decided and Robbie Murphy; July Aisling Moran, project coor- to go ahead with its plans to 23-August 2, Vanessa Richard- dinator with Sherkin Island De- showcase the island’s creative son and Nigel Towse; August velopment Society (SIDS) said: and artistic talent and a series of 4-9, Tara O’ Donoghue; August “We have thought long and hard art exhibitions will take place in 11-16, Brigid Madden and Rois- about holding the exhibitions the Community Hall on Sherkin in Youell; August 18-24, John this year due to the additional Island this summer. Simpson. diligence required by Covid-19 The annual Sherkin Island All will operate under strict guidelines. As always, we are community art exhibition runs Covid-19 guidelines including grateful to Cork County Council until July 4 and is a celebration the use of hand sanitisers, face for their support in helping of the diverse creative talent coverings for all visitors and this to happen. We see it as a on the island. It will include a one-way system in line with great opportunity to showcase paintings, photography, sculp- social distancing requirements. the great creative work that is ture, textiles and ceramics. The Known as ‘island of the arts’, being done here and to welcome exhibition will open every day, Sherkin Island has attracted a people to the island.” from 12 noon until 5pm. population of creative indi- For ferry times see: Sherkin artists: Sherkin Tara, Vanessa Richardson, John Simpson, Jo Ashby, Brigid O’ Six more art exhibitions viduals including professional www.sherkinisland.eu/ferry Connell Madden and Nigel Towse. Pic: Robbie Murphy July 2 – August 5, 2021 45 people Arts & Entertainment Sara Hodson Summer Exhibition Sara Hodson Fine Art Contemporary Figurative Paintings A summer exhibition and open studio event is being held by artist Sara Hodson in Lisnabrinna, Ballygurteen from July 23 to 25.

he exhibition, featuring new landscape and Watercolours and Oils equestrian paintings by Specialist in Commissioned Paintings TSara Hodson, takes place in Sara’s studio in a lofted barn T: 023 8838048 M: 086 2747640 and in an old dairy building. www.sarahodson.com There will also be a painting workshop and a site-specific sculpture, created by Robert weekend. There will also be a of sculpture over the weekend. Hodson, among the events selection of new equestrian art, Light refreshments will be being held over the weekend. horse racing scenes from the available and the exhibition is Sara works mainly in oils Curragh and paintings of native suitable for all ages. Set in a and often ‘en plein air’ and Irish Draught horses. traditional farm with stunning her paintings of horses and Sara also holds workshops views of the surrounding land- landscapes are commissioned at the Studio and over the same scape, what more could you ask and sold worldwide. The new weekend there is the opportuni- for from a weekend of art? landscapes in this exhibition ty to join an ‘en plein air’ paint- The exhibition will be open follow the seasons through West ing class on Saturday morning daily from 11am-5pm, Friday, Cork, from Baltimore Beacon from 10am-1pm. Booking is July 23 - Sunday, July 25. For and Heir Island, to the Long essential as numbers are limited. full details and to book the Strand and Inchydoney. Some Sara’s brother Robert, formal- workshop please go to www. of these original paintings are ly a broadcaster with the BBC, sarahodson.com. included in Sara’s ‘2022 West now works to promote the arts Sara’s studio can be found at Cork Calendar’, which will be in the North of England. He will Eircode P85CY86 available to purchase over the be creating a site-specific piece Funding announced for small scale West Cork festivals he Department for April, with a maximum grant of (€4,000); Durrus and District Tourism, Culture, Arts, €5,000 available. Community Council for the Gaeltacht, Sport and Projects to be funded this Love Durrus Festival (€4,000) TMedia recently announced a year are a mix of online initi- and Cork Craft and Design for funding allocation of €96,391 atives and ‘in real life’ events Cork Craft Month, which hosts for 28 events to support Small to be delivered to an audience many activities in West Cork Scale Local Festivals and in line with general public (€3,500). Summer Schools taking place health guidance. The intention Speaking at the annoucement, around Ireland in 2021. is to add to the cultural content Minister Martin said: “Culture The scheme is designed assisted by the Department and and arts add hugely to our lives to assist local cultural events create a cultural space relevant and to our community. These which may not be eligible under to both local interest and a events will provide much need- funding criteria for larger scale wider community. ed cultural experiences for both events such as those supported This successful applicants audiences and practitioners. by Fáilte Ireland, the Arts Coun- in West Cork were: Geata Arts The organisations funded under cil and similar bodies. Funding Group for the Clonakilty Sam- this scheme have shown great was allocated following a com- hain Festival 2021 (€3,500); resilience and adaptability in the petitive applications process last Drimoleague Singing Festival planning of their projects.”

West Cork groups included in Creative County Cork Grants for 2021 ork County Council has in every community. ed by Creative Ireland, a nation- West Cork Studio Gallery awarded an allocation of Successful applicant or- al five-year programme which €40,000 to 21 different ganisations in West Cork are; connects people, creativity and CLONAKILTY, WEST CORK Cgroups throughout the county Ballinascarthy Remembers; wellbeing. It is an all-of-gov- through its Creative Ireland Ballinspittle Comhaltas; Bantry ernment culture and wellbeing Viewing by appointment, maximum of 4 people per viewing group. Grant Scheme 2021. Creates; Bere Island Women programme that inspires and Funded by Creative Ireland, Create; Clonakilty Community transforms people, places and To arrange your private viewing please contact Geraldine. the scheme is designed to sup- Resource Centre; Comharchu- communities through creativity. port local communities and the mann Chléire Teoranta; Ellen Creative Ireland is committed TEL: 0876831751 creative sector to develop and Hutchins Festival in Bantry to the vision that every person deliver an innovative project, and Kilmurry Historical and in Ireland should have the www.geraldineosullivan.com event or initiative that will help Archaeology Association. opportunity to realise their full stimulate and enable creativity The grant scheme is support- creative potential. 46 July 2 – August 5, 2021 July Sun Signs July starts at a running pace with require, to ensure your quality Mars is opposite Saturn on zodiac it often acts as a time 22 just a couple of days before several tense major transits in of life. As we approach this July 1 and square Uranus on trigger and can kick off events the Full Moon in Aquarius. the first few days. We can expect conjunction in early July expect July 4 and then Venus is oppo- or reactions. The current Saturn This is a taking it easy day, as some resistance to change and an increasing tendency to cut site Saturn on July 7 and square Uranus struggle is represent- the mood is relaxed but there is a call to action on many levels. loose from what, or who, you Uranus on July 8. ed by the social divide that the possibility that this simply It’s not a month to sit back don’t love and gather up what, With Neptune now in a has been created. The Mars makes for complacency rather and take it easy unless you can or who, you do. Most of this retrograde and receiving a chal- opposition to Saturn and square than doing something positive successfully meet the challenge month you will likely have more lenging square from Mercury on to Uranus can reactivate issues and uplifting. and rise above the fray. intense connections and a strong July 6, we are especially vulner- from late March and early April ASTROLOGY It’s the start of Leo season. desire to create only what really able to either delusions or de- 2020 when this cycle started. The Full Moon in the early The Sun and faster planets move feels good or positive in your ceits. Many revelations will be We are beginning to see the degree of Aquarius brings a re- Kate Arbon through this fixed sign during life. The place that Leo occupies leaking out during this Neptune consequences of some people minder of where we were when the next few weeks. Mars, the in your birth chart will describe retrograde. Now that Mercury is accepting restrictions of ‘new Jupiter and Saturn conjoined Kate Arbon is an astrologer, planet of conflict has recently the area of life where this is heading forwards into new ter- normal’, as it is being called, in December 2020. The month writer and spiritual teacher. been joined here by Venus, the most active. ritory after July 7 we can expect whilst others choose to retain ends with Mars in an opposi- Living in West Cork for planet of connection. This pair Whilst in the sign of Leo, the more people to become aware the freedom to exercise personal tion to Jupiter. The combined over 20 years she gives are commonly known as the Venus Mars pair makes sharp of the big lies and hidden truths choice. When the Sun comes to energy of these two can inflate personal consultations locally love planets and they represent angles to both Saturn and Ura- currently being perpetuated. It’s be opposite Pluto, the planet of conflicts or instigate a big push and internationally using two ways to get our desires and nus. The ongoing tense square the ‘Emperor’s New Clothes’ hidden forces, on July 17, this to improve our circumstances. traditional natal and Horary wants met. Mars uses might or aspect between these two heavy- story being played out on the may reveal underlying power We will likely experience a least astrology. force and Venus uses co-oper- weight planets is this year’s big world stage. As it becomes more and control issues that were a bit of both before the end of email: astro@katearbon ation and attraction. Just after story and is the signature for apparent that things are not what unclear until now. the month. www.katearbon.com the New Moon date this pair our current conflicts of interest they have been portrayed as, As the Month progresses July has a New Moon at 19 conjoin, on July 13 to form an and growing social divides. This there will be bewilderment and some lighter and more positive degrees Cancer on July 10 at alliance. This can bring a strong whole month has a theme of confusion for some and a call to energies are activated. Venus 2.16am and a Full Moon at urge with the ability to have activating and reactivating this action for others. moves into Virgo and makes an two degrees Aquarius on July more of what you value and Saturn Uranus square. As Mars moves through the opposition with Jupiter on July 24 at 3.36am.

Aries: The Sun and Moon focus on your home and Virgo: This month can bring some surprising benefits Aquarius: Doing your best work is always important foundations from mid month will put things in to and you may see more results from your efforts than but not always a priority. During this New Moon you perspective and allow a new arrangement to be imple- you expected during this New Moon. You have the can make the changes that have been waiting in the mented. Where you’ve been feeling the stress of get- support of friends and associates right now so accept background. Practical concerns and everyday respon- ting your work and family life balanced now you can with grace what comes to you. Your mind has been sibilities can get the benefit of your full attention from make some progress again. You will want to initiate the dialogue racing and full of ideas and now you can pull out the best options to early in the month. This is a good time to examine how you use and have your say. Plain speaking is required but you may be in- make your life a bit more fun and enjoyable. When the Full Moon your time and energy, with an eye to improving your efficiency and clined to do a dramatic monologue. Putting yourself in the limelight passes later this month you can put some plans into action to ensure productivity. Your inner world is going to take the focus later when may not be what you had in mind but getting acknowledged may be you get that creative project started, or simply book a few days the Full Moon mood makes you more mellow and self-reflective for what comes with the Full Moon later this month. leisure break. a while.

Taurus: There has been a lot of talk and running Libra: With your career and reputation highlighted Pisces: You are energised and inspired coming up around lately and it isn’t about to stop during this New this month you can make significant gains regarding to this New Moon and you want to express some of Moon phase. You may have wanted a steady pace but your ambitions. Recognition for your efforts and re- the creativity that lies deep within you. You can let perhaps not at constant high speed. This still doesn’t ceiving credit for your accomplishments are possible yourself be more free, playful, and spontaneous. You feel like progress. Any connections made now are of now, but only if you’ve laid the foundations. Certainly are seeing a glimpse of the future and may be more value and you will realise this in the weeks to come. The details now is not the time to mix business with pleasure if you want to willing to take chances. You can accomplish much if you set your that have been your focus will open out into the bigger plans as we avoid trouble. You’ve been feeling the pressure lately and the home mind to it. It’s later this month that the Full Moon brings some of move into the second half of the month. With the Full Moon you front may benefit from your natural love of harmony. Trying out the rewards and benefits you deserve. The support and encourage- can see the horizon and know where you are heading. some new styles or just making the required adjustments might ment from your extended social group is heartwarming. ‘make it’ rather than ‘break it’ later in the month. Gemini: You feel the need to address your basic resources and check that you have something to fall Scorpio: This month it’s time to lift yourself out back on. There is the sense that you can put things in of your usual mundane concerns in order to get a place to make the financial situation more suitable to larger perspective on your life. Whilst you have been your needs. Maybe you will start a new project or cash plugging away and felt overwhelmed at times, now in on some hidden talents to give you the boost you need around the you will reap the benefits. You really can get things up New Moon. From mid month onwards you will understand where and running to fulfil the broader vision. This chance to see things you dependencies lie and how to navigate the low points with more from a new vantage point will make all the difference to your world. confidence. You may even get some unexpected support and benefit You simply have to maintain the momentum through the month. A from the efforts of another. teacher or mentor who appears this Full Moon may be particularly important to you later. Cancer: If coming out of your shell was ever required now is an easier time to do it. There is a whole new Sagittarius: There is no time like the present for you or makeover to consider. Even just a simple checking the balance and flow in your life. It’s not just change could set something in motion. Developing about material concerns either. Do you have the ener- your personality and attracting what you need has gy and personal resources to cover you when things never been easier. This New Moon makes you hard to resist. The are stretched beyond the usual limits? The New Moon Full Moon phase will see you connecting to people in a way that may see you looking to others and accepting their support. The test feels good even if it takes you out of your comfort zone. You may is to see if you can put it all to good use and build on what you have get used to some extra company and decide that you are being gained later this month. After July 24 you get the chance to use your offered a better deal than you had expected. skills and talents to future proof your energy stores.

Leo: There is no doubt that this month is keeping you Capricorn: The significant relationships that matter under the radar and behind the scenes in a way that most take your attention during this New Moon phase. isn’t your usual mode. It’s certainly the best time for You may have to consider making changes that will al- you to do that inner work and get some down time, low for greater harmony and mutual benefit. Get to the as it’s been more that busy lately. Around the New bottom of things before it’s too late. Once you have all Moon a little break or retreat is required, even if it just a few days the facts you will be in a much better position to make a decision. out of circulation. The worldly expectations and responsibilities will The Full Moon later this month is a time for getting serious but not get your attention later in the month with the Full Moon and you at the expense of creating a deeper union. Your ongoing personal can apply some newfound wisdom to managing the daily tasks and development is the foundation to ensure all your close connections commitments. thrive. July 2 – August 5, 2021 47 people Arts & Entertainment Generosity in motion – Massimo Elijah at DeBarra’s Spoken Word ne of the upsides of It shows many of his qualities. lineage. The etymology is, ‘one tention to detail and really listens com if you wish to receive it via the many downsides of A rhyming play with words, that who is fond of travel’. I think to others. He gets it; always gets the mailing list. the pandemic has been is inventive and feels natural. our ancestors left Ireland during what you mean.” Go to YouTube to watch an Ounexpected connection, which “I see a tree and stand under the potato famine in the 1800s. The session starts at 8:30pm. interview with Massimo Elijah wouldn’t have been possible oth- its canopy. It draws me close Not really that long ago.” To join, please go to the event ahead of the 14 July session. erwise, says Moze Jacobs. Take and seems to lay its hands on Massimo has been known to in DeBarra’s Spoken Word page Culture Night 2020 at DeBar- Margaret O’Regan, originally me.” A subtle game of rhythm. come up with really eloquent just before the start to find the ra’s Spoken Word ft. Massimo from Clonakilty, now living in “Sunshine wakes with pain- (and moving) rhymes within the zoom link or send an email to Elijah, Emilie Lauren Jones, Rae Cork city. While adhering me- less burning. Take a moment’s space of 10 minutes. debarrasspokenword@gmail. McKinlay. ticulously to the lockdowns, she pace, observing. Nature flirting, “Where do you think inspira- has been zooming around the playing, working.” His hands tion comes from?” world. To Scotland and the UK, dance around the screen and add “I count myself lucky, as I as well as to Canada and the US. counterpoint to the words.” have a very strict form that I .ie t: 023 883 4141 Not to mention various places in Born and bred in Philadelphia, stick to. I don’t use proper nouns Ireland itself. For instance, she he says “I used to love hip hop. like names, places. There is a clonakiltyparkcinema alights in Ennis (Co Clare) every Especially here in the US, it’s certain level of negativity that I CLONAKILTY week to join a Friday Lunchtime the Brew, a weekly online Open an art form. But then a friend don’t engage with. And no di- PARKCINEMA Poetry session. Mic Poetry Reading that starts of mine encouraged me to do visions based on race or gender Ever since Covid-19 upended just before 6pm local (Central spoken word and I immediately or location. So I already have a the mental landscape, Margaret Daylight) time. liked it. Instead of racing to a pathway that I can channel my FAST & FURIOUS 9 has given free rein to her passion During her ‘travels’, Margaret beat, you can slow down and creative energy into. It’s harder for poetry. And whereas she al- encourages fellow readers to make every point. Focus on what to be inspired when you can pick HITMAN’S WIFE’S BODYGUARD ways was an enthusiastic visitor come to (virtual) Clonakilty. As you’re saying instead of having anything. What do you want to FREAKY to DeBarra’s Spoken Word when a result, DeBarra’s open mic is to compete with the rhythm.” talk about? There are a billion PETER RABBIT 2 visiting Clonakilty pre-Covid, often attended by a variegated His full name is Massimo Elijah things…Life, death, springtime, she now belongs to the team that flock of excellent American and Pryor Lavelle. “My father’s love…But when you narrow CRUELLA organises the events from the other poets. Massimo Elijah (35) heritage is African-American it down, the inspiration flows SEE WEBSITE FOR MORE comfort of their homes. Distance is one of them. He will be the while on my mother’s side, it’s so much easier. For you’re not no longer plays a part. Nor time, featured guest on July 14, fol- mixed with Italian. That’s where swamped with options.” it would seem. At midnight on lowing a number of open-mike Massimo comes from.” Somehow his performance, MOVIES THIS MONTH Saturdays, Margaret (who is 70 appearances and a four-minute “The name Lavelle is not even on Zoom, exudes a uni- and happily so) can usually be (master)piece, Rain Dance, unheard of in Ireland. Would you versal courteousness. Not just found in Nashville. Here, she powerfully delivered in a video say you have Irish genes?” toward his listeners but also to mingles with people of all ages, to celebrate Irish Culture Night “Indeed I do! We researched the other participants. all backgrounds, at Poetry in 2020. it. It’s in my mother’s father’s Margaret: “He pays great at- Experience The Everyman outdoors at Elizabeth Fort or the very first claimed Irish comedian Tadhg Outsider YP incredibly challenging period for time, The Everyman is Hickey Saturday, August 15 – Bo- The Everyman, and our audienc- swapping the walls of Saturday, August 7 – The 2 sco’s Garden – Lambert Puppet es have shown us tremendous Ftheir beautiful Victorian Theatre, Norries - Live Podcast – Starring Theatre support throughout. We’re for the ancient walls of Elizabeth James Leonard and Timmy Long Friday, August 20 – Charo- absolutely delighted to finally be Artist Yvonne Condon makes her Fort, Barrack Street, Cork. Sunday, August 8 – Sunday lais by Noni Stapleton, Directed able to welcome them, in person, The Everyman Outdoors, Songbook - That’s Amore, The by Bairbre Ní Chaoimh again. The setting may be a little mark on Cork City’s Princes Street presented in association with Story of Dean Martin Saturday, August 21 – different but our commitment unique public art work on one of Cork’s most beloved streets, Cork City Council, will bring Friday August 13 – A World Karan Casey performing with to supporting great artists and supported by Princes’ Street traders, Cork City Council, Arts and the vibrant energy of The Every- of Music with Evelyn Grant and acclaimed musicians Seán Óg presently quality shows to our Disability Ireland(ADI) and Crawford Art Gallery. man outside into the historic Cork Pops Orchestra, featuring Graham on guitar, Niamh Dunne audiences, remains.” AStroll along Princes Street to discover street artwork by Yvonne Con- heart of the city. Across five special guest Keith Hanley on fiddle and vocals and Niall Tickets for The Everyman don, a dynamic female artist from East Cork. Yvonne is partially sighted weekends in July and Au- Saturday, August 14 Vallely on concertina Outdoors are on sale now and has a hearing impairment. She also creates bold, uncompromising gust, The Everyman will bring - Olympio X OUTSIDER Col- CEO of The Everyman Seán at everymancork.com images. you Cork’s finest comedy, music lective – Featuring KeSTine and Kelly says “This has been an Yvonne is interested in documenting life as it happens. Her paintings and laughter – live! are snapshots in time and her method reflects this as she completes them at From Laura O’Mahony to high speed. The amount of detail Yvonne manages to include in her paint- Bosco, The Sunday Songbook to ings is quite a feat due to her limited eyesight. Yvonne focuses on people Tadhg Hickey, the programme and faces in her work and is inspired by such artists as Auguste Sander. has something for the whole family to enjoy, al fresco. Friday July 23 - Karen Underwood and John O’Brien ‘What a Difference a Day Makes’ – heart-warming and joyful night of jazz, soul and blues Saturday, July 24 – Laura O’Mahony ‘Live and LOUD!’ – Come join Laura for some joy and a big post pandemic cuddle (socially distanced of course- she’s taking no chances!) Friday, July 30 – ‘Throwing Shapes Live’ A showcase of music and spoken word from The Kabin Studio Saturday, July 31 – ‘In One Eye, Out the Other’ by ac- 48 July 2 – August 5, 2021 people Home & Garden Choosing flooring for your home

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Call (028) 33144 e: [email protected] E We cut stove glass while you wait Trade, domestic & commercial enquiries are welcome. 50 July 2 – August 5, 2021 people Home & Garden Enjoying the fruits of our labour t last the hungry gap seems to be over. After a long cold spring the Atemperature is rising and the growth in the garden is really noticeable. We have had salad much of the time but now we can add new potatoes to the menu along with delicious French beans from the tunnel, sugar snap peas, beetroot, broad beans, and the courgettes are just days away. Although the A COTTAGE majority of tomato varieties are still a way off, we have grown a GARDEN PROJECT variety this year called Bloody Jean Perry Butcher and yesterday I picked eight beautiful ripe tomatoes. It isn’t the best tasting tomato Jean Perry of Glebe Gardens in the world but we are still in will share the ongoing June, as I write this, and to get successes and failures of ripe tomatoes so early is a joy. I growing a small cottage garden have grown this variety before using no-dig and organic but not in the recent few years. principles to see just how I do remember it as always much food she can get out of in our seas, not to mention the first to ripen though. I am such a plot. Join her on this intensive livestock farming also growing a variety called journey… and land degradation. I like to Maskotka for the first time. It think I am a careful shopper is bred specifically for pots and but I still seem to accumulate baskets and is very prolific. recovered well and now have a good deal of plastic. So I am I grew them initially for my lots of fruit on them. I haven’t doubling my efforts and what daughters and their families but tasted one yet, but it does I can’t grow myself I will buy had a good few left over and seem to be an easy and space from other local growers and just threw them in a corner. I saving way to grow a crop of producers. Careful choice of was having a tidy-up in the tun- tomatoes. I am really making vegetable seed varieties will nel and found this heap of re- an effort to try and grow all of help to extend the season and ally sad-looking tomato plants; our vegetables this year. It will hopefully give enough of a crop not able to throw anything mean careful planning both in to allow me to store or process away, I decided to pot them on the garden and with our menus. surplus to help keep winter food interesting. and put them up on my hanging Eating and cooking with what some gooseberry jam this year. labour, enjoying lovely fresh There are also things that shelf in the tunnel. They have is in season is a skill that most This will be a special treat later vegetables, herbs and fruit are very hard to buy now, such of us have forgotten. With the in the year when there isn’t from our gardens before we as gooseberries. I have a few ease and availability of conve- much fruit in the garden, and have to start thinking of saving bushes in my garden and they nience food, who could blame also what a lovely little gift it and preserving our bounty for are covered in fruit this year. us? But the consequences are would be for someone. the winter. It will come soon They are delicious just stewed beginning to catch up with us: So now is the time to start enough. and served with a little cream From climate change to those enjoying the fruits of our horrific rafts of plastic waste and I am going to try and make

Average house prices have €10,000 over the past three Cork county house risen by almost €1,000 per months to €253,685 – repre- week nationwide since the end senting an annual increase of of March, the REA Average eight per cent. prices rise 6.3 per cent House Price Survey has found. The biggest rises in Q2 came The survey concentrates on in commuter counties and the in three months the actual sale price of Ireland’s country’s large towns as buyers typical stock home, the three- continue to move out further he price of the average In Charleville, prices rose 1.9 bed semi, giving an accurate from the city in preparation second-hand three-bed per cent to €162,000, and time picture of the second-hand for long-term hybrid working semi in Cork has risen to sell fell from seven weeks property market in towns and situations. T6.3 per cent to €193,500, ac- to four. cities countrywide. Three bed semis in commut- cording to a national survey by “Overall, demand continues Fuelled by pent-up demand er counties rose 4.33 per cent Real Estate Alliance. to be strong with a mixture of and the return of physical by over €11,000 in the past Across the county, the aver- both mortgage approved and viewing, the marketplace is also three months to an average of age time taken to sell has fallen cash purchasers,” said Michael seeing the lowest supply and €270,111 – with the average from seven weeks to four, the O’Donoghue of REA O’Dono- the shortest time taken to sell in home selling in just three Q2 REA Average House Price ghue and Clarke. recent history. weeks, down from a high of 11 Index shows. “Having said that, a continu- And as multiple buyers bid weeks a year ago. In Cork city, this quarter saw ing lack of stock coming to the for scarce supplies, the average As the flight to rural locations New Café! prices rising 1.5 per cent to market remains a significant three bed semi is now reaching continues, prices in the rest of serving €330,000, and the average time issue in relation to all property sale agreed after just four weeks the country’s towns rose by over takeaway tea, coffee, taken to sell fell by a fortnight types. on the market across the coun- 4.6 per cent in Q2 to €176,690. cakes & vegetarian fare. to six weeks. “In our opinion, the market try – less than half the ten-week average this time last year. OPEN THURS - SAT, 10AM - 5.30PM SUNDAYS 12PM-5.30PM Bantry prices this quarter rose at this point is buoyant, with by 9.8 per cent to €225,000, strong steady demand overall The price of a three-bed- Ireland’s natural nursery & mail order plant people roomed semi-detached house EQ with time to sell falling from for all property types through- Kealkil, Bantry • 027 66176 • www.futureforests.ie eight weeks to five. out the city and county.” across the country rose by July 2 – August 5, 2021 51 people Home & Garden DEELISH GARDEN CENTRE West Cork is Ireland’s garden paradise We’re on the banks of the Ilen, 1 mile west of SKIBBEREEN on the old Baltimore road. Fully signposted off the N71. Gardeners everywhere love to complain about Open Mon to Sat 10am - 5pm the weather…and the weather in West Cork often Sunday and Bank holidays: Closed gives us something to grumble about! The very dry Phone: (028 21374) Q E weather we had in March and April this year and the very cool weather in May have had many of us cursing. June has finally brought some warmer temperatures, together with ample rain, resulting in an explosion of growth. Yet if we look beyond short-term weather patterns at our long-term climate says Michael Prime…we actually have much to rejoice in.

ost of West Cork can be seen everywhere in West enjoys a temperate, Cork. Huge range of oceanic climate, After Fuchsia magellani- Mof a type rare in the northern ca, probably the most typical barbecues, smokers, hemisphere. In fact, our climate hedgerow plant of West Cork is The Chilean Myrtle (Luma apiculata) has much more in common the orange-flowered Montbretia. fire pits, chimenias with places in the Southern It too is not native, but origi- Hemisphere, such as southern nally came from the temperate and outdoor cooking Chile, the South Island of New southern coast of South Africa. Zealand, or Tasmania. When I Many beautiful bulbs come equipment. gardened in Kent, I struggled from this region, including the and failed to grow plants such pink, autumn-flowering Nerine as the beautiful evergreen bowdenii, and the blue Agapan- flowering trees Embothrium thus orientalis, both of which are coccineum and Drimys winteri often found as huge clumps in from Chile. Like so many other old gardens. plants from oceanic parts of The wet and windswept the Southern Hemisphere, they Falkland Islands are the original simply cannot stand prolonged home of the large hedging Hebe, Crinodendron hookerianum (Red Lantern Bush) spells of hot, dry weather. No Hebe elliptica, often found in such problem here in West Cork, coastal gardens. Other smaller where such plants grow, as if and more colourful Hebes come they were native. from New Zealand. The moun- In fact, looking at the most tains of Tasmania and south-east VISIT 27 FABULOUS GARDENS common garden and hedging Australia are the home of the plants in West Cork, many of beautiful hardy tree fern, Dick- IN IRELAND’S which are often assumed to sonia antarctica, which even be native, we find that most naturalises in some of our wetter GARDEN PARADISE originally came from south of gardens. the equator. Fuchsia magellan- Of course, some of our com- ica, the symbol of West Cork, mon garden plants do originate and a plant to be found in almost in the northern hemisphere. The every hedgerow, originally came Himalayas and the islands of Drimys winteri Embothrium coccineum from southern Chile. The Chile- southern Japan and Taiwan have an Myrtle (Luma apiculata) and given us Camellias, Rhododen- Gunnera tinctoria, both widely drons and Magnolias, as well naturalised (and sometimes as tough seaside hedging plants invasive) are its compatriots. like Euonymus japonica and Escallonia macrantha is another Eleagnus x ebbingi. Plants from Chilean tree that has been these regions demand regular widely used for hedging here summer rainfall, something we for centuries. Three of the most can usually provide in West spectacular flowering trees that Cork! The Elaeagnus is a can be grown in West Cork common utility plant, but repays Most gardens are open now until the end of are Crinodendron hookeria- closer examination to appreciate the Summer and offer season tickets, check for num (Red Lantern Bush), the the small but beautifully scented individual gardens, their location, opening times white-flowered Drimys winteri flowers in November, as well Dicksonia antarctica and events at www.westcorkgardentrail.com (Winter’s Bark), and the gor- as the edible fruits and seeds in regarded as ex-situ conservation. or West Cork Garden Trail Facebook page. geous red-flowered Embothrium April. If the plant becomes extinct in coccineum. Again, all hail from The Atlantic islands of the the wild (which climate change Chile, and struggle in a climate Azores, Madeira and the Canary makes more likely), it will sur- like that of south-east England. Islands also enjoy a temperate vive on this Emerald Isle. Two of the very toughest oceanic climate, especially at All in all, we should be seaside shrubs, often used for higher altitudes. The tall blue thankful for a climate, which hedging, are Olearia traversii flower spikes of Echium pinin- enables our gardens to grow and Phormium tenax. Both of iana are a common sight in our such a great variety of unique these hail from New Zealand coastal gardens, yet this plant is plants from around the world, and its offshore islands, as does native only to one small area on many of which are generally the very popular Griselinia the Canary Island of La Palma, hard to please in the Northern lucida, and the beautiful but where it is rare and endangered. Hemisphere. tough Astelia chathamica (Silver There are many more specimens Spear). New Zealand is also the of this plant in Ireland than there westcorkgardentrail.com original home of the Cabbage are in its native range. Our Irish Palms (Cordyline australis) that colonies of this species can be Echium pininiana 52 July 2 – August 5, 2021 people Home & Garden What’s at stake? Providing support for your plants Mags Riordan of Bum- can easily go crooked if they result in an uneven stretch, with welcome food source. Our next blebee Farm is guiding meet resistance from a stone as the squares pulled at an angle Instagram live is Sunday, July us through the planning, they go through the soil. lessening the support space 18 at 4pm. Looking forward to planting and caring of a bed You will need a post no less for the plants to grow through. sharing the fruits of our labour than 120cm, as you’ll be driving Have the netting 45cm from with you all. for cut flowers. This month a third into the ground; any less the ground, as any lower would Bee Kind she focuses on supporting and the anchorage for support require a second layer of netting your plants. won’t be sufficient and the support especially for the taller netting won’t stay taut. varieties. This can be adjusted can’t over-emphasise the A mallet is safer than a ham- as the plants grow and raised a importance of staking and, mer, as it doesn’t slip off the little if needed. while it’s a job I don’t relish top, and lessens the possibility Antirrhinum and calendula Idoing, it’s one I get the greatest of hitting your thumb rather really benefit from netting satisfaction from when it’s com- than the post, which can be very support because the flowers pleted. All too many times I’ve painful. are quite top heavy and, if they neglected it only to have top- Reusable pea netting with a topple over they will turn, reach heavy blooms like antirrhinum minimum of 15cm squares is for the light and you’ll have lost fall over just as they were about ideal and is available from all your cutting length. to flower. good garden centres. Despite the cold May and Reinforcing bar cut to size is Drive the stakes in top and delayed growth, things are be- a perfect reusable stake for this bottom of the bed and another ginning to catch up and our next patch. If it’s not possible to get set in the middle making sure Instagram live will be focused these, then wooden stakes will they’re secure. Hook the netting on cutting and arranging your do the job just as well, although around the first posts on either flowers. I love this stage, as it’s over time these will rot. As side and pull taut to the next the reward of the months of you’re driving in a wider sur- set of posts. It’s best to work hard work sowing, planting and face area more care is needed down the bed this way, as doing minding, while helping our pol- to keep the stakes straight; they each side individually can linators with the addition of a Gardening in July s we head into July, seaweed-based feeds are very Autumn gardening calendar are Protect too against rabbits longed dry spells. your tender bedding, reliable. Don’t forget to remove well worth seeking out. Check and pigeons. Continue training of wall- patio and vegetables dead flowers and dead or dam- in specialised outlets to secure Sow Spring Cabbage from trained peaches and nectarines Ashould by now be well-estab- aged leaves regularly, as they sourcing success. July 21 to August 15. These and fan-trained plums and lished. Continue to protect soft can be a source of grey mould will then be ready to plant out cherries. Complete pruning of plants against slug damage disease. Lawns in their final planting quarters at cherry trees. especially in damp weather. Continue to mow and trim the end of September or early Cut old canes immediately Containers, window boxes Roses edges once or twice a week to October. There are specific vari- after raspberries have fruited. and tubs are developing and Feed roses in containers with a keep the lawn in good condi- eties especially for Spring matu- Tie in new canes, remove un- growing rapidly so keep them weekly seaweed-based liquid tion. If dry weather prevails cut rity. Choose Flower of Spring or wanted suckers an keep weeds well watered during dry and feed. Deadhead faded blooms less frequently – more leaf area Durham Elf. Take precautions under control. warm spells. Water early in frequently, removing suckers at can cope better. Give the lawn GARDENING against pests as outlined for the the day, keeping water off the source of origin. a boost with a liquid fertiliser. overwintering crops. Time to fill up gaps flowers and foliage. By feeding Water new lawns laid in spring John Hosford It’s not too late to sow… Fill up gaps in borders or con- at weekly intervals with a Autumn Flowering Bulbs if the weather is dry. It is vitally The Weekend Garden You can make late sowings tainers with pots of strong patio, good liquid feed, your summer Plant without delay autumn important that newly laid turf Centre of beetroot, lettuce, carrots, perennial or bedding plants. containers will repay you with flowering bulbs such as Cycla- grass isn’t allowed dry out. garden turnips, greens and peas. Fuchsias are good gap fillers a profusion of flowers and men (hardy varieties), Autumn Begin initial preparation for When sowing peas choose an too, flowering well into the au- colour right up until the first Crocus, Colchicum and Stern- autumn sowing of lawn seed or early variety such as ‘Douce tumn, sometimes until the end frosts of autumn. The organic, bergia. All these treasures of the laying of a new lawn in Septem- diseases to a minimum. Plant in Provence’, which will mature of November If the aspect and ber. Dig over the whole site and good rich fertile soil, enriching quickly. Take out a trench about the weather is kind, they will of- remove all perennial weeds, lev- with well rotten manure. 5cm deep with a spade or draw ten continue to flower until the elling it roughly. If the ground is In the absence of well rotten hoe, spacing the seeds about end o if the aspect and weather weed-free, use a rotovator over farmyard or stable manure 2.5cm apart. Water the drill if is kind. Protect agaist rust and a large area. The final level- these can be substituted with the soil is dry, cover the seeds downy mildew. Potted Dahlias ling-off and raking down can be ‘Gee-up’. Water in thoroughly and tap down the soil firmly especially dwarf, bedding, done nearer the time of sowing after planting, continuing to with the back of a rake. Then or patio varieties come in an or laying the turf. water during dry spells. Protect cover the row with fine netting attractive array of colours. They against cabbage root fly by or horticultural fleece. Support are long flowering and certainly Vegetable Garden placing cabbage collars at the the plants with twiggy sticks or earn their keep in the border Finish planting of winter bras- base of the stem immediately sheep netting. or containers. Busy Lizzies, sicas such as savoy cabbage, after planting. Cover the crop Begonias, Ferns and Hostas brussel sprouts, kale, cauliflow- with horticultural fleece or fine Fruit Garden are good choices for shaded er, purple sprouting broccoli. It mesh such as ‘Enviromesh’ to Pick strawberries, gooseberries, areas. A good choice for seaside is important to get all these off protect against pests, especially currants, raspberries, cherries gardens, hydrangeas o provide to a good start by not delaying the cabbage white butterfly, and peaches. colour from July to October, are planting any further. Avoid which lays its small, yellow Protect ripening fruit from widely available and come in a planting where members of eggs on the leaf undersides, bird damage by netting or use a range of colours. the cabbage family have been which develop into the scourge fruit cage. grown during the past three of cabbage crops in the form of Complete thinning of apples, or four years. Rotation is very caterpillars. supporting heavily laden important in keeping pests and branches. Irrigate during pro- July 2 – August 5, 2021 53 people Sport A living legend able mentions going to his 1973 All Ireland winning team mate Kevin Jer O’Sullivan and Skibbereen based rowing heroes Gary and Paul O’Donovan. The Bantry Blues clubman first broke into the Cork senior football team in 1971, arriving on to the scene with two All Ireland minor medals, and two All Ireland U21 medals to his name. Unsurprisingly, he quickly became a key player SPORTING within the group and alternated between the midfield and centre TALES forward positions for much of the following decade. The Paul Lordan undoubted high point of his in- tercounty career occurred quite at intercounty level and stifle Declan Barron with his Cork 1973 Football Team. Paul Lordan is a sports and early on for Barron, when he Cork’s hopes of an another All history enthusiast, and he played a pivotal role in helping Ireland win. Although, O’Dw- intercounty scene in 1982. of competing at senior level. away a few inches to many of is delighted to combine his Cork to secure the 1973 All yer’s Kerry would win eight At club level, Declan Barron Unfortunately, despite reaching his contemporaries in the half passions in his column. Paul Ireland title. He was joined on successive Munster Champion- was an integral part of Bantry a senior county semi final in back, midfield and half forward is well placed to comment on the panel by his Bantry Blues ships from 1975 to 1982, their Blues’ rapid ascension from 1976 and a senior county final lines of the 1970’s. However, sport as a former hurler and club mate Donal Hunt. Barron 1976 final in Páirc Úi Chaoimh Junior to Senior ranks in the in 1981, success in the senior Declan Barron made soaring footballer with Shamrocks. He would go on to showcase his left Cork wondering what might 1970s. Bantry’s rivalry with the grade would prove to be elusive high to pluck balls out of the is also a former Munster Senior versatility and adaptability on have been. The rebels were great Bandon team of the late for Barron in Bantry colours. sky look easy. His tough, no League soccer player and the grandest stage in Gaelic left incredulous after a perfect, 1960s and early 1970s saw both However, being a key member nonsense style won him a host manager with Avondale United, Football. Following an injury fisted goal from Declan Barron teams dominate the Carbery of the Carbery divisional team of admirers all over the country. Casement Celtic, Garryduff and to Millstreet’s John Coleman, in the closing seconds was division. In 1972, they faced that secured the 1971 senior title The sheer esteem in which he is Passage AFC. Paul’s grá for all Barron seamlessly transitioned disallowed. This occurred after off in a tense divisional semi saw Declan Barron complete held is cemented by his inclu- things West Cork results from to the role of centre back (a Declan’s team mate, Brian Mur- final in Skibbereen (having a rare feat in securing county sion in both the Cork Football the fact that he is descended position that he had not played phy had earlier been incorrectly both won two titles a piece in championship honours at junior, Team Of The Century (at Centre from a family of farmers in the at since his underage days with adjudged to have caught the ball the previous four years). With intermediate and senior level. Forward) and the Cork Football Coolmountain area. Bantry Blues). He delivered a behind the goal line earlier in his team trailing by two points, Declan Barron is widely Team Of The Millenium (at typically impeccable perfor- the half. There would be mild Barron found the net in dramat- regarded as the greatest ever midfield). On a national level, mance in unfamiliar territory, consolation for Barron and ic fashion with a last minute fielder of a football to don Cork he received two All Star awards espite the illustrious and his aerial dominance in the his teammates in 1980, when 21 yard free kick. This proved colours at any level. Fielding is (both in the centre forward posi- nature of the shortlist, last quarter saw Cork through they defeated Kerry to win the to be a pivotal moment in their a difficult skill to execute, and tion) in 1974 and 1978 during a it will come as no against a plucky Galway outfit. National Football League title. season and Bantry went on to this is highlighted by the dearth period in which big names from Dsurprise to any follower of Cork The remainder of Declan Bar- His second half performance win the county junior title that of natural fielders of the ball in iconic Kerry and Dublin teams football that the winner of our ron’s inter county career would when switched to midfield is year. The Blues subsequently the modern game and the ensu- dominated the Gaelic Football poll to determine West Cork’s coincide with a frustrating said to be amongst his best ever secured the county intermediate ing rule changes that have been landscape. In an area dominated greatest ever sportsperson was period for Cork’s football faith- in a Cork jersey. Unfortunately, title in 1975 by defeating their brought in to address the decline by one sport, Declan Barron’s the mercurial Declan Barron. ful as Mick O’Dwyer’s Kerry there would be no further suc- West Cork neighbours Naomh of one of football’s core skills. exploits with the big ball see He won with just under 45 per and Heffo’s Army (Dublin) cess for Barron in Cork colours Abán. Barron’s Bantry quickly Standing at an even six feet tall, him rightly regarded as a living cent of the vote, with honour- would assert their dominance thereafter, and he departed the acclimatised to the rigours he certainly would have given legend in West Cork.

Fundraising campaign launched to build all-weather track for West Cork athletes

andon Athletic Club is Work will commence shortly time. The club also caters for aiming to raise €100k to with the expectations that recreational sport in the form of build a new all-weather the all-weather track will be ‘Fit4Youth’. This aspect of the Btrack to serve West Cork. installed in 2022. The track club is vital to ensuring athletes The club has recently con- development phase is expected have opportunities to partake in cluded the purchase of an eight to cost over €500K so public athletics in a friendly social en- acre site at Clancoolbeg just support is urgently needed to vironment and progress at their outside Bandon.F ull planning help raise the €100K to enable own pace while getting all the permission has been granted work to commence on the track health benefits from athletics. for the development of a 400m foundations. Bandon AC already has great all-weather track, field event This development, unlike the working relationships with local It has been a long road to get large part in obtaining this site don and West Cork and the new area’s and an indoor training majority of other all-weather schools and organisations such to where the club is now and and the associated planning facility will benefit the wider facility. This is a huge step for- tracks in Ireland, will be owned as Bandon Special Olympics lot of time and commitment permissions, along with a very local community. ward for the club and massive and controlled by the club. and West Cork Athletics and has been put in from a large dedicated Track Development To help raise the required vote of confidence by the club This facility will elimi- is looking forward to working number of club members. sub-committee who put in a funds to build this facility go in the talent within Bandon and nate waiting lists and enable even more closely with these Special mention has to be made huge amount of work. to www.gofundme.com/f/ the wider West Cork athletics athletes to focus on training and groups once the development of one of founding member, Mr This is an exciting time for bandon-ac-track-develop- community. recovery and not on travelling is ready. Billy Good, who has played a the athletics fraternity in Ban- ment-fundraiser. 54 July 2 – August 5, 2021 people Motoring Ease into electric with hybrid Peugeot 3008 t the Irish launch of is towards plug-in hybrids and motor trade recovers. The year vides a clear demarcation line the flick of a switch you can their 3008 three years electric. 2030 is a long way off and who between driver and front seat choose which mode of driving ago Des Cannon, MD Some time back Government knows what can happen in our passenger. Everything is literally you want, Hybrid, Sport or pure Aof Gowans, who distribute Minister Richard Bruton said world over the next nine years. at your fingertips thanks to the electric. Peugeot cars in Ireland said: that under the ‘Climate Action But for now we can gradually iCockpit screen and the seven You can charge the car and ‘‘We want Peugeot to become Plan’ no new petrol or diesel ease our way into electric mode switches on the dash which get up to 50km in pure electric known as an SUV brand. Last cars will be registered here by by driving Hybrid cars. would remind you of a piano. mode and you can also build year (2017) over 30 per cent the year 2030. The minister also Last week I drove a slight- Included in that ‘dividing up ‘bonus kilometres’ as the of all cars registered in Ireland said we would see a huge in- ly refreshed plug-in Hybrid console’ is a huge, deep box to regenerative braking system will were SUV.’’ crease in the number of electric version of the Peugeot 3008 and store drinks, phones etc. You get build up kilometres as you drive. Since then there has been no charge points around the country it was very impressive. I love a nice touch of grey on the seats I drove a very attractive CAR let off in the number of new and that by 2025 the number of SUV’s and felt very secure in which brightens up the interior Celebes Blue colour, which won SUV’s coming on to the market, electric cars should have risen to this powerful cars. It used to be décor. many admirers. Prices start at REVIEWS with every manufacturer intro- between 12 and 14 per cent. said that a Volvo was built like That ‘divider’ unit gives you a €32,775 for the 1.2-litre petrol ducing new models. Now Covid-19 might have a tank, now I think the Peugeot very secure feeling and it’s also version of the 3008. My auto- Sean Creedon We have had petrol and diesel skewed those figures we will is similar. where the gear lever and various matic Hybrid2 version with 225 versions and now the big push have to wait and see how the Inside a huge console pro- other controls are located. At brake horse power will cost you €40,740. Road tax is only 140. Externally it’s a very impres- sive solid-looking car. The front grille is very smart, two silver roof rails adds to the SUV look and the Los Angeles two-tone diamond cut alloys certainly added to the overall classy look. When you drive the car you will feel like the ‘King of the Road.’ The boot and if you leave down the rear seat the load space is massive, but no room for a spare wheel. The 3008 has been named European and Continental Irish Car of the Year and has been a huge seller with over 700,000 sales since launch. Now the Hyrid is sure to add to those impressive sales figures. Hope to see you all in 2030. www.westcorkfridayad.ie PRAYERS

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