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When you know how to do a lot of different things, it can be hard to settle on just one,” says Jolanta Katke, owner of ....
21/01/2025

When you know how to do a lot of different things, it can be hard to settle on just one,” says Jolanta Katke, owner of .ireland Artisana, a new shop in the Winthrop Arcade, which first opened its doors for business last August and sells only handmade products made by local crafters.

Katke herself is a passionate crafter and spent many years making and selling her own items from home and online. Now however, she has started her very own business, and is delighted to be able to develop an ever expanding ecosystem of fellow artisans.

“I moved to Ireland seventeen years ago (from Lithuania), but I’ve been doing crafts all my life. Fourteen years ago I had twin girls and it was during this time that I tried a lot of different crafts.”

“I crochet, knit and I do some felting, but I always like to challenge myself and I don’t like to just stick to simple things. But now I have a lot less time to make things, so I have to choose carefully what direction to go.”

Full story on T+D.

My god there’ll be no Murphy’s left in Cork the way they’re tearing into it across the water. Per The Observer:Murphy’s ...
18/01/2025

My god there’ll be no Murphy’s left in Cork the way they’re tearing into it across the water.

Per The Observer:

Murphy’s has been one of the biggest beneficiaries. Last week its owner, Heineken, said sales in UK pubs and bars were up 632% in December, compared with the same month in 2023. Sales throughout 2024 were up 176%, and it is now stocked in more than 500 British pubs, with strong growth in London and the north-west. The brand is also introducing cans. It recently poked fun at Guinness’s famous slogan, with a campaign titled “Good things come to those who are waiting”.

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Pádraig O’Connor reviews ‘Chasing the Light’ now showing until Weds 15 of January at 8pm. Full review on T+D.Maurice O’...
13/01/2025

Pádraig O’Connor reviews ‘Chasing the Light’ now showing until Weds 15 of January at 8pm. Full review on T+D.

Maurice O’Brien’s latest documentary ‘Chasing The Light’, is a heartfelt and poignant exploration of one young and idealistic couple’s dream of building a place of refuge on the remote edge of a cliff in West Cork in the early 1970s.

While Dzogchen Beara, the Tibetan Buddhist Retreat Centre which Peter and Harriet Cornish established is still going strong today, as this meditative documentary reveals, it has had to weather more than its fair share of scandal and heartbreak along the way.

The Cornish’s journey from first arriving in rural Ireland, to growing their centre into a world-renowned spiritual home from home for thousands of people, is quite remarkable.

This is captured in O’ Brien’s film through some quaint old footage of the couple as they set about laying the bricks of the very first building, all the way up to some more recent shots of the construction of an extravagant new temple.

Interspersed throughout all of this is interview footage with the late Peter, who passed away in 2023. He comes across as a gentle soul still carrying the tremendous loss of his wife, who died of cancer at the age of 44.

Having suffered from failing eyesight for most of his life, Cornish’s piercing blue eyes and scraggly beard give him the sage-like appearance of someone who has spent a great deal of time reflecting on the immense joy and suffering of both his own and other people’s lives.

The names, the names, the names. Just go hálainn.In the Millstreet area crews were in operation in the Hollymount, Cooli...
10/01/2025

The names, the names, the names. Just go hálainn.

In the Millstreet area crews were in operation in the Hollymount, Coolinarna, Ballinagree, Stuake, Ahadallane to Waterloo, Meenachoney and Aghabullogue yesterday.

Today the focus will be in Baurahairin, Knocknakilla, Caherbarnagh, Knocknagowan, Mullenroe and Curragh.

This is from a press release from Cork County Council about cleaning up in the big thaw.

The long read on T+D this week is from the Glasheen Stream. The waterway is not in a pretty state. It suffers from a mix...
06/01/2025

The long read on T+D this week is from the Glasheen Stream. The waterway is not in a pretty state. It suffers from a mix of pollution, inaction, poor visibility, under investment, and dumping.

Piece in full on T+D. Sub if you can to support local journalism like this.

Thanks and Mayfly Ecology.

If you don’t know the Glasheen Stream, that’s not surprising. From its source near the arches of the once-mighty Chetwynd Railway Viaduct on the Bandon Road to where it enters the River Lee at Victoria Cross, it runs just over 5 kilometres.

Along this route, which takes it from woodland and fields on the outskirts of the city, it is channelled, fenced off, hidden, laden with silt, culverted, tunnelled, bordered by a motorway, dredged, and used as a dumping ground. Water will always find a way downstream, and so it has with the Glasheen. But nature, by and large, has been forced to abandon the sorry stream.

The degraded state of the Glasheen Stream is hardly unique. Look around at many of the city’s waterways, and you’ll see the same grey, murky, slow-moving water that signals pollution, wastewater, and the exact conditions that create biodiversity dead zones.

Maria Young from Green Spaces for Health and the cohort of gardeners who have transformed a corner of Clashduv Park into a thriving community garden know the stream well. The Glasheen runs in a straight channel within spitting distance of the garden and polytunnel, where they grow radishes, lettuce, cape gooseberries, prickly cucumbers, tomatoes of all varieties, Jerusalem artichoke and much else. They have also dug out a pond, planted rows of native Irish hedgerow plants and published a cook book.

The Glasheen, however, is inaccessible, barricaded behind fencing.

One other great thing do as well as washoku is banging tunes. Sure System of a Down was belting out from the most happe...
03/01/2025

One other great thing do as well as washoku is banging tunes. Sure System of a Down was belting out from the most happening-est kitchen in Cork anocht:) 🎶🎶🎸🎸🍙🍙 めっちゃお美味しかった!!

U loves to sees it. Tradition. Free cars. Lord Mayors. Must find out what happens to the cars once they turn a year old.
03/01/2025

U loves to sees it. Tradition. Free cars. Lord Mayors. Must find out what happens to the cars once they turn a year old.

Year in review photo dump #2. All along the Lee. Round town. Bitcoin ATM. ようこそ. Pull like a dog. Up de Rebels.
24/12/2024

Year in review photo dump #2.

All along the Lee. Round town. Bitcoin ATM. ようこそ. Pull like a dog. Up de Rebels.

This is how all Christmas trees in pubs should be erected. Horizontally. 🎄🎄🎄
23/12/2024

This is how all Christmas trees in pubs should be erected. Horizontally. 🎄🎄🎄

Year in Review photodump 1. What a year. The Non Event Centre. Bating Limerick. Bating Limerick again. Not bating Clare....
23/12/2024

Year in Review photodump 1.

What a year. The Non Event Centre. Bating Limerick. Bating Limerick again. Not bating Clare. Bating Galway. Election posters. Election promises. Five years to break those promises. Midsummer Festival. Culture Night. Culture every night of the week how are ya. Macroom in the Eurovision. Represent. Building sites all across the city. We’re not there yet. Drugs bust boat in the harbour. The Marina gets a proper promenade and MacCurtain St gets an upgrade. Restaurants come. And go. Collab of the year: Páirc Uí Chaoimh X SuperMarket chain.

Marina Promenade photo dump. Money well spent. Seating, bike parking, and a path as smooth as butter for runners, walker...
22/12/2024

Marina Promenade photo dump. Money well spent. Seating, bike parking, and a path as smooth as butter for runners, walkers, talkers, scooters, cyclists, people with disabilities.

Pretty sure this study is about Douglas…
15/12/2024

Pretty sure this study is about Douglas…

Gigs, markets, lectures, art, music, fairs, tunes, improv, fundraisers, food, drink, it’s all happening this weekend! Yo...
13/12/2024

Gigs, markets, lectures, art, music, fairs, tunes, improv, fundraisers, food, drink, it’s all happening this weekend!

You can check it all out in this weekend’s Friday View!

A year into her new role, Fiona Collins, Cork City Council’s Night-Time Economy Advisor, talks to about the role, its l...
11/12/2024

A year into her new role, Fiona Collins, Cork City Council’s Night-Time Economy Advisor, talks to about the role, its limits, what she’s accomplished so far, and, yes, the Event Centre.

Full story on T+D, check it out! And if you enjoy our work, why not subscribe!

Bless you little unloved child
09/12/2024

Bless you little unloved child

The gift that keeps on giving
09/12/2024

The gift that keeps on giving

LOL cats. Love to all.
09/12/2024

LOL cats. Love to all.

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