BY HELEN RIDDELL AFTER a three-year pandemic-enforced absence, beekeeping organisations in West Cork will hold their annual beekeeping event on Sunday March 26th at Cox’s Hall on Sackville Street in Dunmanway.The event, which is hosted by the Carbery Beekeepers’ Association,
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One-third of our 99 bee species are at risk of extinction. Picture: iStock
Sun, 14 Feb, 2021 - 15:30
Peter Dowdall
It s that fabulous time of the year when we begin to see growth emerge from the energy beneath the surface once more. The seemingly delicate and tender snowdrops and crocuses have battled through frozen ground to open-up in glorious, colourful bloom.
Soon, that annual switch will go off in each one of us which sends us longing for the outdoors once more, a longing which is exacerbated this year for obvious reasons of lockdown.