ICA news: Dramatic times for West Cork

The new West Cork ICA vice-president doesn’t mince her words: the organisation is dwindling.

“It’s down to 13 guilds in West Cork. Castletownbere doesn’t seem to have a guild, Skibbereen doesn’t, other parishes don’t,” says Brigid O’Brien, who wants to encourage new guilds to set up and to support existing ones.

“We’re beginning to become an actively retired group. We need women with young children to join. I don’t buy that they’re not in it because they’re working outside their homes.”