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Organisation: Sherkin Island Development Society

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Full moon rising over Sherkin Island's Franciscan Abbey on April 7th, with Baltimore Beacon in the distance. Picture: Robbie Murphy

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The Islands of Ireland: Sherkin battens down hatches
This Easter, as Atlantic rollers make landfall on the western shores of Sherkin Island, birdsong thrills the air and sunshine floods the fuchsia-filled boreens, this achingly beautiful place is out of bounds to all but those who live there, writes Dan MacCarthy
Sherkin arts course saved after grant aid is doubled

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Sherkin arts course saved after grant aid is doubled
Emergency talks sought over future of Sherkin course

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Emergency talks sought over future of Sherkin course
‘No chance to react’ to college fund cut on Sherkin Island

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‘No chance to react’ to college fund cut on Sherkin Island
Funding fears put college’s island degree in jeopardy

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Funding fears put college’s island degree in jeopardy

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Seafaring legends evoked by artists on Sherkin
It’s never too late, says graduate, 82

IT’S all about attitude and it’s never too late.

Tue, 20 Apr, 2010

Presidential first on Sherkin Island

PRESIDENT Mary McAleese will make history next Monday when she becomes the first president to visit an island off the southwest coast.

Wed, 14 Apr, 2010

Sherkin the island of paint and scholars

ONE of Ireland’s most southerly communities has become the Island of Paint and Scholars after the first graduates of an offshore degree programme earned their scrolls yesterday.

Tue, 03 Mar, 2009

Different class: Island hosts third-level degree

FORGET UCC, CIT or even Trinity — in what is being hailed as a major education breakthrough, a small island off the West Cork coast is now the venue for a third-level degree.

Sat, 26 Apr, 2008

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