BY DAVID FORSYTHEPLANS to develop a new garden centre by Drinagh Co-op in Bantry have been refused on appeal to An Bord Pleanála.Drinagh Co-op originally applied to Cork County Council for permission to develop the new garden centre in November 2022 as part of a wider planning a
Dunmanway man, James Duggan, was one of the lucky people in West Cork who had a memorable sighting of a meteor earlier this month.James witnesses the spectacle shortly before midnight on January 4th. ‘I was sitting on the couch watching TV and I saw a fireball going through the
2023 HAS been another incredibly busy year in West Cork, with plenty of highs and lows experienced across the community and all of it reported on in the pages of this newspaper.Jackie Keogh, Kieran O’Mahony, Martin Claffey and Siobhán Cronin have compiled a news review of the
BY MARTIN CLAFFEYA NEW initiative by farmers in West Cork is giving children from local schools a taste of the real farm life.The pilot farm visit scheme, which has been backed by Carbery, is seeing eight schools from across West Cork get an opportunity to experience of what tru