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KUNG FU CORK

In day four of our special report on rural Ireland we visit Ballydehob, Co. Cork.

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Weldon’s will showcase these diamond and sapphire cluster earrings at the Kinsale Antique Fair tomorrow priced at €7,250.

Rita O’Driscoll is from Skibbereen, and works in her hometown as development manager of Uilinn, West Cork Arts Centre. She worked with AIB in Cork before joining her husband in a family business for 20 years and also studied interior design, followed by a BA in visual arts on Sherkin Island.

Ballydehob-born Tara Brandel explores personal issues in her performances, writes Ellie O’Byrne

What’s going on this weekend

MUSIC NEWS: Perhaps it’s fortunate for the Glastonbury organisers that Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs isn’t on their bill this weekend. 

As President Michael D Higgins continued his West Cork visit yesterday, one thought struck you: This might be the best spoken-word tour the county has seen for many a year.

President Michael D Higgins has stressed the need for the State to protect and sustain the life and culture of Ireland’s islands.

A new exhibition at West Cork Arts Centre in Skibbereen features a range of artists who pay homage to the local environs, writes Alan O’Riordan

The new Kilkenny Cookery School has just been opened by wife-and-husband chef team, Mary and Neil McEvoy. 

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Tommy Barker visits Ilen River bank home of departing banker, AIB’s Chief Executive David Duffy, after its latest €1m-plus drop.

West Cork Arts Centre’s new, €3.5m, 10,000 sq ft Uillinn building is a feature in Skibbereen, says Noel Baker.

ANTIQUES FAIRS

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‘We’ve waited many, many years for this’

Paintings from Morgan O’Driscoll’s online auction of Irish art are being sold to help fund the new West Cork Arts Centre, the building of which is now nearing completion at Skibbereen.

A glass sculpture of a boat, entitled ‘A Voyage of Stories’, will be unveiled today by Micheal Murphy, the harbour-master for Bantry Port, in Donemark, Bantry. ‘A Voyage of Stories’ is a collaborative artwork, designed by artist Michael Ray and students at the National Learning Network.

The arrival of the first inhabitants of Ireland according to folklore, descendants of Noah, form part of a new art project exploring immigration and emigration in West Cork.

MUSIC NEWS: Shane MacGowan has told the Quietus website that some of his best songs were written by ghosts.

David Seymour’s paintings reflect the confusion of conflict, when the abnormal is the norm, says Tina O’Sullivan

A rare open-air exhibition of art has brought a West Cork town to a halt.

PLANNING permission has been granted for the construction of a new West Cork Arts Centre in Skibbereen.

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.

A WEALTHY American couple, which supports the Vatican museum and has donated to the British Labour Party, plans to give almost €400,000 to help build a new arts centre in west Cork.

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.

CORK is living up to its reputation as Ireland’s top fair trade county as a string of local towns enjoy a packed calendar of events to celebrate Fairtrade Fortnight 2008.

ARTIST Neva Elliott’s raising eyebrows in Skibbereen, where she’s set up a home from home — in a little white hut in the middle of the local library.

ARTISTS based in West Cork are set to launch a €300,000 fundraising drive to build a new home.

HAVING noted the comments made regarding ballet in Ireland on a recent omnibus edition of RTÉ’s Fair City, I was dismayed to see that the message seemed to be that ballet is non-existent in Ireland.