Celebrating West Cork’s entrepreneurs West Cork is the home Special 10-page feature of Cork football page 52 www.westcorkpeople.ie & www.westcorkfridayad.ie March 5 – April 1, 2021, Vol XVII, Edition 223 FREE Old Town Hall, McCurtain Hill, Clonakilty, Co. Cork. E: [email protected] P: 023 8835698 TIME TO CHANGE NEW PEUGEOT 3008 ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT pages 39-42 PLUG-IN HYBRID, PETROL, DIESEL For International Women’s Day 2021, Dunmanway based photographer Patricia Andrade decided to take portraits of women she admired in her community, including Mairead Mawe, new PRO of the West Cork Ladies Gaelic Football association, who is pictured with her daughters. Pic: Flash Photography Studio Kinsale College’s Green Campus initiative CLARKE BROS LTD Main CLARKEPeugeot Dealer, BROS Clonakilty Road, Bandon, Co. Cork. shortlisted in Aontas STAR awards Tel: 023-8841923(BANDON) LTD Web:Main www.clarkebrosgroup.ie Peugeot Dealer, insale College’s Green Kinsale College’s Green Campus Education is more than fitting. HEALTH & LIFESTYLE Campus initiative has been initiative made waves as the latest “Environmental awareness Clonakilty Road, Bandon, pages 24-38 shortlisted in the Sustain- in the school’s continuing bid to permeates into every corner of our Co. Cork. Kable Development Through Educa- promote the importance of sustain- college, every course we run and Tel: 023-8841923 tion category of the prestigious 2021 ability, biodiversity, and environ- every move we make; it is what Aontas Adult Education Awards. mental awareness. Their most recent we’ve been focusing on for the last All cars can be seen on Cork ETB’s North Cork Uphol- nomination has followed swiftly on 20 years,” said College Director Liz stery and Textile Design Classes from another significant achieve- Moynihan. “It’s not just our Perma- www.clarkebrosgroup.ie were announced the winners in the ment – scooping the An Taisce culture and Sustainable Horticulture category. Green Campus award. The College students who learn about the envi- Contact Ian Carey The winners were announced this has been at the cutting edge of envi- ronment – it’s everyone on campus; 087 2624747 week during the Adult Learners’ ronmental education for many years our students, our teachers and our Festival 2021, which is taking place since they began hosting the world’s admin staff. Even the exercise of [email protected] until March 5. Run by Aontas, the first full-time course in Permacul- preparing for our pitch to the judges voice of adult learning in Ire- ture back in 2001. has been a valuable learning expe- land, the STAR Awards stand for The Green Campus designation rience for us. It has given us even Showcasing Teamwork, Awarding recognises the years of work carried greater awareness of the progress Recognition and their aim is to out by staff and learners of all ages we have made and the possibilities recognise and celebrate the work of at the college, so their placement that the future holds for an initiative ENVIRONMENT adult-learning initiatives throughout within the award category of as powerful as the Green Campus.” pages 43-45 Ireland. Sustainable Development through To support our healthcare workers and keep your friends and families safe, please follow the Level 5 stay safe Covid Guidelines to suppress the virus in West Cork. 2 March 5 – April 1, 2021 O’Sullivan receives West Cork historian appointed Director clarification on of Research at MIC rban and social histori- Fáilte Ireland an, Dr Richard Butler, has been appointed as strategy Uthe new Director of Research at Mary Immaculate College (MIC). The West Cork native ork South West Deputy Killarney, which aligns to the joins MIC’s Research and Christopher O’Sul- Wild Atlantic Way and rec- Graduate School following his livan has welcomed ognises its potential as a great tenure as Associate Professor of Cthe clarification from Failte base to explore the region. Urban History at the University Ireland this week in relation to It has been referenced in a of Leicester where he served the Destination and Experi- number of news articles that as the principal investigator ence Development plan for Killarney would be rebranded for several research projects, Killarney and in response to as “gateway”, which is not including those funded by the newspaper articles and radio the case. Kinsale is very much British Academy and the Arts segments where Killarney was and Humanities Research Coun- on the Wild Atlantic Way described as the “gateway” to cil (AHRC). Dr Butler has also route, which continues to be the Wild Atlantic Way. published widely on modern In correspondence received heavily promoted by Fáilte Irish history, and his research this week by O’Sullivan from Ireland and Tourism Ireland has focused on power and Miriam Kennedy, the Head of and will continue to benefit governance in cities, religious Business Tourism and Events form this. Kinsale is also the history, crime and punishment, at Fáilte Ireland, she stated: start or end point of the Wild and histories of engineering and Atlantic Way so has its own technology. “One of the agreed prior- as a book editor in Ireland, Dr 1750-1850’. During his PhD and volunteers with Bantry unique selling points as part Hailing from Bantry, Dr But- ity actions in the Killarney Butler returned to Cambridge as studies, Dr Butler also held a Tidy Towns, as well as with of the route. We are currently ler is a past student of Ardscoil Destination and Experience a Gates Scholar for his doctoral Fulbright Scholarship at the the Bantry Inshore Search and Phobal Bheanntraí. He later Development Plan (devised developing a Destination and studies where he examined the University of Wisconsin-Mad- Rescue Association (BISRA) went on to study engineering by a collaborative working Experience Development plan architectural, social and political ison, and was awarded the lifeboat. and history of art at St John’s for West Cork and this plan history of Irish courthouses and Hawksmoor Medal in 2014 Further information on group, which is made up of College in Cambridge where will also have a number of prisons in the 18th and 19th from the Society of Architectur- MIC’s Research & Graduate key stakeholders, agencies and he also completed his MPhil agreed priority actions for the centuries, published by Cork al Historians of Great Britain. School is available at www.mic. industry in Killarney) to create in British colonial architecture destination, which will build University Press in 2020 as Now residing in his native ul.ie. a new destination positioning in India. Having worked as a on its strengths.” ‘Building the Irish Courthouse Bantry, Dr Butler is an active piece and refreshed brand for journalist in Kathmandu and and Prison: A Political History, member of the local community CNM Training Successful Practitioners CHANGE CAREER Train to become a… Nutritional Therapist Herbalist Attend a FREE Acupuncturist Online Event Homeopath Health Coach Natural Chef Postgraduate & Short Courses Part-time studies NEW Study in class or online Colleges across Ireland and the UK 01 878 8060 www.naturopathy.ie March 5 – April 1, 2021 3 A welcome escape: ALBANY From Tasmania to SSkibbekibbereenreen West Cork Author Esther Campion We stock all of these paint brands! Little Greene, Farrow & Ball, Curator, Colourtrend, Tikkurila, Dulux, Fleetwood, Albany & Jotun skilled storyteller, Esther I have introduced my other other one, which got a bite that Campion’s writing style children and extended family to landed her a two book deal with has been compared to the area and they all love it too,” Hachette Australia. ‘Leaving Delivering all over West Cork & Cork City! Athat of the late Maeve Binchy. she says. Ocean Road’ and ‘The House of CURTAINS • FABRICS • BLINDS • PAINTS • INTERIOR DESIGN The Cork native now living in Before becoming a writer, Second Chances’ are both partly Tasmania, writes stories about Esther worked in adult education set in West Cork, as is her latest HOME INTERIORS & DECORATIVE FURNITURE people you’d meet every day and she has studied environmen- release, ‘A Week to Remember’. Cork Rd, Skibbereen (next to Apple Green) with secrets and challenges to tal science and zoology. Esther came to live in Tasma- 028 23162 • [email protected] • www.fusionhome.ie face, back stories to resolve and How does she feel about her nia via a fairly circuitous route, Opening Times: Mon - Fri 8am to 5.30pm | Sat 8am to 5pm futures to find hope in. Three of books being compared to the taking in spells in Dublin, Fort her books are partly set in West late, great Maeve Binchy. “It William in Scotland, Hjelmeland Cork: Her latest release ‘A Week both thrills and terrifies me,” in Norway and Port Lincoln in to Remember’ is a warmly cap- she says. “I grew up seeing South Australia. For the past tivating tale spanning Tasmania my mother read her books and eight years, she has been living and Crookhaven. Esther chats to came to love them myself in my with her family in a seaside spot West Cork People about her love thirties. I could never have imag- on the North West Coast of the of West Cork and how she came ined then that I would become a island state where the people to writing later in life. writer not to mind be compared are friendly, the weather is fairly “When my publisher read an to Maeve.” good and there is a lovely sense early draft of ‘A Week to Re- Esther only came to writing of community. member’, she said she wanted to in her forties after moving to Although she misses home book herself in to Lizzie O’s (my Australia. “I’d wanted to do and admits to fear of missing fictional guest house) and escape a creative writing course but out (FOMO) on the many Four to Crookhaven post haste,” says there wasn’t one in the town,” milestones in her family that Esther laughing.