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Us Cork people have plenty of money to spend, acc to Deputy Michael Healy-Rae, speaking at the opening of the Macroom bypass today
#macroom
#bypass
#kerry
#cork
#neighbours
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Rowers from
@skibbrowing
escort the coffin of one of the club's founder members Danny Murphy on his final voyage from Oldcourt to Cunnamore pier on Friday evening. video footage: Anne Minihane.
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This clip was sent into us by a reader. It shows freak waves crashing onto cars at the carpark by Tragumna Beach outside Skibbereen.
This video illustrates why it's important that warnings about freak waves at the coast should always be heeded.
#Waves
#WaterSafety
#IrishSummer
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Congratulations to Steve Redmond who yesterday became the first person to swim from Baltimore to the Fastnet Rock and back again.
He encountered cold water, jelly fish and even minke whales on his journey.
Read the full story in Thursday's Southern Star.
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Sunrise through the arch at the Bull Rock at 5.30am in a photo captured by Jason Sheehan of Dursey Boat Trips
#WestCork
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#KittyCotter
from Bandon, aged 101, goes out to vote in her rainbow colours
http://t.co/naqygb1Gnk
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An overjoyed Holly Cairns talks to
@KeoghJackie
about taking a seat for the Social Democrats in Cork South West. It is an historic event for West Cork but is in keeping with the national trend for change.
#CSW
#GE2020
#SSGE20
#CorkSouthWest
#WestCork
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Cork South West TD Michael Collins has said Ireland’s decision not to limit immigration is ‘reckless’.
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The only newspaper in the country with our gold medal winning heroes on the front page this morning!
This week’s Southern Star is not to be missed!
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It’s official: Holly McKeever Cairns (Social Democrat) took the fourth and final seat in the Bantry electoral area by a one vote majority
#WCLE19
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Colette Palmer and her daughter Emily uneveil a plaque in memory of Paudie Palmer in the new building at St Brogan’s College in Bandon this evening
@WestCorkSport
@brogan_st
@ValleyRoversGAA
@Templenoeabu
@C103Cork
@CorkETB
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Sea spray from a blowhole on the Sheep’s Head Peninsula. Video: Bob Miller.
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The Star’s front page on Argentina’s links with
#BereIsland
made the news on breakfast TV in
#Argentina
today!
#WorldcupQatar2022
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#FLOODING
#N71
VIDEO:
#Rosscarbery
#westcork
flooded again this morning. Fire service there from early hours
@aaroadwatch
@Corkcoco
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BREAKING: The West Cork-based Carbery Group has announced a €78m investment in expanding its Ballineen milk processing plant to enable diversification of its cheese products in a bid to increase its markets worldwide.
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A major congratulations to *two* West Cork restaurants who have each been awarded a Michelin Star at a ceremony in London tonight - the Mews in Baltimore and Chestnut in Ballydehob. Read the full story in this week’s Southern Star.
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YOUR OLYMPIC CHAMPIONS
Gold medallists Paul O’Donovan and Fintan McCarthy chat to RTE Sport after winning the men’s lightweight double sculls final in Tokyo.
#olympics
#tokyo2020
#RTESport
📺 Watch live -
📱 Updates –
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What a way to mark
#InternationalWomensDay
!
The Southern Star has appointed Siobhán Cronin as its new Editor.
#WestCork
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We were featured on
@rtenews
this evening.
Thanks to everyone in
#WestCork
and beyond for their continued support.
#journalismmatters
"The paper has met many challenges in its 131-year history and it will survive this one too."
There's
@cronin_siobhan
and
@SeanCMahon
on
@rtenews
, talking to
@paschalsheehy
about the need to keep buying and supporting newspapers. Go on
@SouthernStarIRL
!
#skibbereen
#buyapaper
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🎼 For the weekend that’s in it, here is Claire, Sinead and Sean O’Regan from Rosscarbery singing the ballad of Michael Collins 🎼
#MichaelCollins
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Checking out after a fabulous stay at The Eccles Hotel in Glengarriff are President Michael Higgins and his wife Sabine, alongside the general manager of the historic hotel, David Manning.
@Eccles_Hotel
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Two Bantry farmers have been convicted for starting gorse fires on their lands, in what may turn out to be the first prosecutions of their kind in West Cork.
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The sun shone on a socially distant Schull Farmers’ Market, which re-opened at 10am this morning.
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Congratulations to 'The Southern Star's' intrepid news editor Siobhán Cronin on winning the Feature Story of the Year category at the National Lottery Media Awards for her four-page supplement in January to mark the 40th anniversary of the 'Betelgeuse' tragedy at Whiddy Island.
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Parish priest of Ballyvourney and Coolea, Fr Seàn Mac Càrthaigh blessed the final section of the by pass today
#macroom
#ballyvourney
#bypass
@Corkcoco
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WHO IS THE DREAMIEST WEST CORK MAN?
Have your say now (and be in with a chance of winning €100!):
#WestCork
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It's 2.30am and we are still counting in
#Clonakilty
for
#corksouthwest
Are we the only count centre still alive? Hello ... hello ... anyone out there in
#GE2020
land? Just one more count left, we think ... looking at a 3am finish. Any advances on that, folks around the country?
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Oscar nominee Saoirse Ronan has been holidaying in West Cork once again
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Delighted to be able to share a sneak peek of Fianna Fáil TD Christopher O’Sullivan and Wexford-born Sarah Redmond’s wedding celebrations at Fernhill House Hotel in Clonakilty today.
Congratulations 🎈
Photo: Kyrstin Healy.
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A new water park at the Lagoon Activity Centre in Rosscarbery will open in time for the June bank holiday weekend and will operate until September, with capacity for 100 people at any one time.
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This day 25 years ago, almost the entire town of Skibbereen decamped to Croke Park in Dublin to cheer on O'Donovan Rossa in the All-Ireland club senior football final. What are your memories of those halcyon days of a quarter of a century ago?
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Sir Bob Geldof and Jeanne Marine at the Uillinn West Cork Arts Centre for the final showing of Coming Home: Art & The Great Hunger
#cominghome
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A
#Clonakilty
engineer has come up with an innovative and eco-friendly product that allows people to use their food waste to create a free source of energy for cooking in the home.
#WestCork
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Is Paul Hayes (SF) the queen maker? Has Cllr Holly Cairns (SD) taken the third seat in CSW? The result will be announced shortly.
#CSW
#GE2020
#SSGE20
#CorkSouthWest
#WestCork
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Édaín O Donnell sent us this video from Ring Clonakilty, taken at 07.45 this morning.
#StormBarra
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Hundreds of people took part in a Candle in the Wind vigil in Skibbereen tonight to mark the community’s collective loss during Covid.
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An almost unrecognisable
#LoughHyne
this morning following last night's heavy downpour.
Unlikely to see any of the Lough Hyne Lappers out there this afternoon!
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Congrats to Dunmanway's Darren Sweetnam on his first senior rugby cap for Ireland tonight in their great 38-3 win over South Africa. Well deserved. On as a 73rd minute sub. Hopefully a first start for him next week against Fiji!
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Republic of Ireland soccer star Conor Hourihane has been named the 2019 Celtic Ross West Cork Sports Star of the Year.
The Bandon man was crowned the best in the west at the annual gala awards banquet in the Celtic Ross Hotel on Saturday night.
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On the day that his friends in the
#LoughHyne
Lappers say goodbye to club founder Declan Newman, the lake never looked so still or magnificent.
#skibbereen
#decky
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Oscar nominated actor Saoirse Ronan made an appearance at the Fastnet Film Festival this evening for a Q and A with former film censor John Kelleher.
She spoke to our reporter Brian Moore about her new film and her connection to West Cork
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Cork South West Social Democrat
@HollyCairnsTD
Cairns will be on the
#LateLateShow
tonight talking about the horrific abuse she has encountered as a politician, and being stalked at her home in
#WestCork
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They didn’t win but they were in the last three and
@rebelacro
certainly did Cork proud! Well done guys on
#GotTalentIRL
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Cork County Council has received heartfelt praise from a grateful parent for providing a beach wheelchair at the Warren in Rosscarbery.
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A new community initiative aimed at encouraging children to cycle safely to school has started in Skibbereen.
The initiative is part of Cycle Sense, a not-for-profit organisation that has been teaching three different levels of cycle-training since 2007.
🎥
@KeoghJackie
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Good news as
#Rosscarbery
appears to have avoided the flooding of recent days ...
#StormEllen
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The Southern Star Reader’s Picture of the Week is of Kilkilleen Strand at sunset, looking out towards Roaring Water Bay and Mount Gabriel, pictured by Carmel Winters. Send us your captioned high-resolution jpg images (at least 1MB) to editorial
@southernstar
.ie by midday Monday.
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Warm tributes being paid to Paudie Palmer at St Brogan’s College in Bandon this evening as the 3 new science blocks are named in his honour. Some great yarns too about Paudie from his friends and colleagues
@CorkETB
@brogan_st
@ValleyRoversGAA
@Templenoeabu
@C103Cork
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Unprecedented: With just one vote between them - Finbarr Harrington (Ind) at 1,865, and Holly McKeever Cairns at 1,864 - a recount in the Bantry electoral has been called
#WCLE19
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Congrats to Emily Hegarty & the Irish women's four.
Superb performance by the Irish women's four to win silver at the European Rowing Championships. They were closing in on The Netherlands at the end.
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Bantry’s New Street resembled a river last night.
Video: Catherine Wharton.
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The Wolfe Tones debut at the Electric Arena,
@EPfestival
, to one of the biggest crowds of the weeked!
#ep2023
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‘The Southern Star’ Reader’s Picture of the Week by Rita Eaton from Leap is of a heron admiring its reflection in the water in Rosscarbery last Sunday evening.
Send your pictures as hi-res jpg attachments (minimum 1MB) by e-mail to editorial
@southernstar
.ie by midday on Mondays.
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Grace O’Rourke, fitness and mindset coach, was the only woman to complete the Irish Special Forces ‘Hell Week.’ She gets a well deserved standing ovation at the Network Ireland national conference in Rosscarbery.
#StepUp
#NetworkIreland
#CelticRoss
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'Amazon aren't going to be supporting the local under 12 football team next year'
A passionate Diarmaid Murphy from
@BantryBusiness
joined
@cronin_siobhan
on our latest
#Coronavirus
podcast to discuss the importance of shopping local
Full podcast ➡️
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The late Garda Aidan Cremin honoured by a community that claimed him as one of their own.
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West Cork Distillers’ John O’Connell is Industry EY Entrepreneur of the Year via
@SouthernStarIRL
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The Southern Star Reader’s Picture of the Week is of the sun going down behind Ardagh Martello Tower on Bere Island, pictured by islander Helen Riddell. Send us your captioned high-resolution jpg images (at least 1MB) by e-mail to editorial
@southernstar
.ie by midday on Mondays.
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Paul O’Donovan from Lisheen, Skibbereen, who won a silver medal with his brother Gary at the Olympic Games in 2016, had been awarded a Quercus Scholarship by UCC – the college’s top sporting accolade.
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The Southern Star Reader’s Picture of the Week is of shade-loving sheep, pictured by Pat Maguire in a field beside the N71 between Connonagh and Leap, who move with the shadow of a big tree throughout the day to try to avoid the relentless sunshine during the current heatwave.
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On a blustery winter’s day, four people went in for a dip off the pier at Snave. One of them was Ray Murnane who went in one of his old wheelchairs.
Watch the full video here ➡️
Video by
@KeoghJackie
Read the full story in Thursday's Southern Star
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A total of 75 Michael Collinses turned up for the world record attempt in
#Newcestown
today! The travelled from all over Ireland and the oldest was 86!
#michaelcollins
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A little bit of heaven brought to you from the
#beacon
in
#Baltimore
on this stunning
#WestCork
afternoon
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'Most people in Ireland are Social Democrats, they just haven't realised it yet'
We're thrilled to announce that we're launching a new Election podcast on Monday morning.
In the episode 1
@cronin_siobhan
is joined by first time candidate
@HollyLeahCairns
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Smoke still coming out of the now roof-less old convent in Skibbereen nearly four hours after emergency services first arrived on the scene
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COUNTY HALL: 19-year-old UCC student Ben Dalton O’Sullivan has surprised many to win one of the last seats in Carrigaline.
#WCLE19
#LocalElections2019
#LE19
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On the 104th anniversary of the sinking of the Lusitania, its American owner Gregg Bemis explains why he is signing over the wreck and its artefacts to the Old Head Signal Tower and Lusitiania museum
#Lusitania
#kinsale
#westcork
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Irish singing sensation, Sinead O’Connor, in conversation with Ian Bailey in Glengarriff.
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#pippamiddleton
& her new husband
#jamesmatthews
in
#glengarriff
for a friend's wedding earlier today. Photo: Andy Gibson
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The boys tell
@rtenews
there could have been 'a few million' in
#skibb
tonight!!
@skibbrowing
@KieranMcC_SS
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Well done Jamie Wall, Celtic Ross West Cork Sports Star of the Month after managing the Mary I hurlers that won another Fitzgibbon Cup title
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‘The Southern Star’ Reader’s Picture of the Week is of a fox 'minding' the chickens, taken by Pauline Collins at a farm near Caheragh, outside Skibbereen. Send us your captioned high-resolution jpg images (at least 1MB) by e-mail to editorial
@southernstar
.ie by midday on Mondays.
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Nice to see other media picking up on our
@SouthernStarIRL
Picture of the Week last week - which has been getting a huge reaction since we published it.
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Despite the cold there was a large attendance in Bandon earlier today to mark the centenary of the death of Brigadier Sean Hales. The Army Band 1st Brigade were also there
#seanhales
#bandon
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TODAY IS
#WorldBeeDay
- Sarah Kearney, a social work student at
@UCC
, uses
#beekeeping
to teach mindfulness to students from Cork City Learning Support Centre. She reminds us of the role of
#bees
in
#biodiversity
and in the future of the entire planet! Pic: Clare Keogh
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Flames seen coming out from the Old Convent in Skibbereen.
Emergency services have arrived on the scene
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We're thrilled to announce that The Southern Star has been shortlisted in a total of five categories in the upcoming Local Ireland National Lottery Media Awards 2018!
#WestCork
#LIMediaAwards2018
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It is with a heavy heart that we report the sad death, in the early hours of this morning, of local photographer John Eagle, after an illness. The
#Beara
photographer was famous for his love of
#lighthouses
and his lighthouse tours & excellent aerial shots.(Photo: Niall Duffy)
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This rare silver fox has been seen in the Waterfall area of Cork in recent days. Have you seen it?
The silver fox is a melanistic form (i.e. increased development of the dark-colored pigment melanin in the skin or hair) of the common red fox.
#SilverFox
#GeorgeClooney
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Huge congrats to Clonakilty who have won the Best Town Award at Urbanism Awards in London this evening
#clonakilty
#westcork
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BREAKING: Gougane Barra campaigners thank public after successful campaign against windfarm via
@SouthernStarIRL
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Congratulations to Clare O'Leary from Rossmore, who received the Celtic Ross West Cork Sports Star of the Month award for captaining the Clonakilty ladies' football team to county intermediate success in 2020. The award was presented this evening via zoom.
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Union Hall is getting the carnival treatment today as Netflix shoot their latest series 👀
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What a fantastic initiative: With the support of Scally's SuperValu, and with AsIAm’s guidance, the town of Clonakilty is hoping to combine the efforts of the entire community to become fully autism-friendly, which will be a first for anywhere in Ireland.
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West Cork’s favourite brothers have shown again that they have a future in TV if they ever decide to hang up their oars.
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In the early hours of January 8, 1979 a fire broke out at the Gulf Oil Terminal in Bantry Bay. It quickly spread, resulting in the loss of 50 lives and the eventual destruction of the Betelgeuse – a French-owned oil tanker.
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