WEST Cork’s Rossmore area is no stranger to drama — after all, for the last 58 years Rossmore has hosted its own annual highly-regarded, amatuer (but no less competitive) West Cork Drama Festival, complete with local community/arts hall with hydraulic stage, and a wine bar, and where the festival run for 2019 just finished up earlier this month.

I went to see an excellent production of Sive in the Gaiety Theatre recently. Written by John B Keane in the 1950s, it tells the story of a teenage girl who is sold into marriage with a much older, albeit wealthy man, and is one of my favourite plays, writes Louise O’Neill.

A man has been sent forward for trial, on a plea of guilty, for trying to escape garda custody in a courthouse, and on a charge of assault, relating to the same incident.

Overcoming the challenging and intricate route of the Carbery Navigation Trial in Leap, west Cork, the Lissarda/Drinagh duo of Donal Healy/Denis O’Donovan (Toyota Starlet) took a hard earned victory. 

Pottery is in ceramic artist Jim Turner’s blood. The West Cork-based artist, who is

Personal memorabilia such as photographs of loved ones, teddy bears and floral tributes will be removed from county council-managed cemeteries if new bylaws are enforced.

Personal memorabilia such as photographs of loved ones, teddy bears and floral tributes will be removed from county council-managed cemeteries if new bylaws are enforced.

Whole generations stretch between them, yet strong links of friendship have been forged between schoolchildren and their elderly neighbours in a West Cork parish school.

Donegal’s Donagh Kelly bids for a fourth successive victory at the Quality Hotel West Cork Rally this weekend - a feat that has never been achieved in the 40-year history of the Clonakilty event.

Although Donagh Kelly’s debut in a Ford Fiesta R5 lasted just shy of the halfway mark in the Grizedale Rally in Cumbria, the Donegal driver was impressed with the car and has vowed to give it consideration in his plans for next season.

A community which led a campaign against a controversial waste facility is gearing up to fight plans for a civic amenity site in their area.

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A respect for the environment was second nature to a couple who enhanced this home, says Tommy Barker.

Certain things tend to run in families — particularly names. Williams Rossa Cole is a great grandson of O’Donovan Rossa. His brother is Ross Williams Cole, and their father was William Rossa Cole. The brothers have four children between them — all have a Rossa in their name.

More than 4,000 people are expected to visit a tiny West Cork village over the summer — in search of a belly-laugh.

The casket which carried the body of Irish Fenian leader Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa home from the US has been restored and will go on public display this weekend.

Kilmeen Drama Group has been blazing a trail in Irish amateur theatre since the 1940s, writes Colette Sheridan

Cork city and county are at risk of losing out on attracting major foreign companies to invest in the region because proper facilities are not there for them.

From Cork to New York, the Fenian whose funeral is now seen as a dry run for the Easter Rising, will be well remembered this summer on the centenary of his death.

Cork County Council hopes to secure advance funding from the Department of Environment to build new roads and bridges which will open up two adjoining sites in East Cork for major development.

A dramatist’s "treasure trove" of artefacts, some of which date to the Second World War and which are housed in farms around West Cork, is to be moved to a custom-built ‘coach-house’.

A mother has resorted to a crowdfunding website to raise money to provide medical treatment for her autistic son, after a two-year wait for an MRI scan described as “urgent” by a doctor.

Special litter ‘hit squads’ are to be deployed throughout Co Cork to tackle illegal dumping, after a pilot scheme removed 17 tonnes of waste from roadsides in just 49 days.

The father of a 12-year-old girl who lost her battle with cancer this week has said his daughter died happy after receiving a message from her favourite band.

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Thousands of visitors are set to descend on a rural West Cork village over the next few weeks — to take up its offer of some belly laughs.

"What are we without our stories?" asks Dinny, the father of two young men in Enda Walsh’s bizarre homicidal drama, The Walworth Farce.

Feverish preparations are under way for the influx of 3,000 fans to the tiny West Cork village of Rossmore which annually hosts the country’s biggest drama festival.

Veteran folk and rock performer Roy Harper is set to be tried next year over allegations he committed a string of sex offences in the 1970s.

Cork-based veteran folk and rock performer Roy

RELEASING a basket of beautiful white doves symbolises the love, peace and permanence of a couple’s union and their heartfelt wedding vows — but the picturesque ritual has a secret underbelly of exploitation and cruelty. Because, once released in a spectacular cloud of white feathers, some of these birds don’t, as expected, fly straight back to their owners.

AS the recession has tightened its grip, more and more families have said tearful goodbyes to parents forced, through economic necessity, to leave their loved ones behind and, hunter-gatherer-style, jet off to jobs on the other side of the globe.

You almost couldn’t script it: Kilmeen Drama Group from West Cork has been crowned All-Ireland Champions for an unprecedented third time in a row, in a triumph that mixed joy and deep emotion following a tumultuous year.

At least 3,000 visitors are expected to flock to a tiny West Cork village this week.

THE passion for treading the boards on the amateur drama circuit will be documented in a new six-part series on RTÉ One, starting on Apr 16.

It’s a case of the butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker all pulling out the stops this week as their local village hosts one of the biggest amateur drama festivals in the country.

A West Cork man’s home was raided the day before his civil partnership ceremony and gardaí found cannabis being grown for the celebrations.

A Michael Collins Autumn School — along the lines of the internationally renowned Yeats Summer School — will be held for the first time this year.