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4 days ago | 
southernstar.ie | Emma Connolly
Emma is ready for eight glorious weeks, with her flask and the bumper Things to See and Do.THE school holidays have arrived, and to say we’re ready for them is an understatement. There’s always something so incredibly exhilarating about the half-day you get when the holidays begin, when spirits are sky-high as you look ahead to eight glorious weeks ‘off’, from making school lunches at least, and when everything and anything seems possible.
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1 week ago | 
tandfonline.com | Emma Connolly
?Mathematical formulae have been encoded as MathML and are displayed in this HTML version using MathJax in order to improve their display. Uncheck the box to turn MathJax off. This feature requires Javascript. Click on a formula to zoom. ABSTRACTThe article addresses cross-platform movement of viral social media content in the context of high-profile election campaigns.
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1 week ago | 
southernstar.ie | Emma Connolly |Marian Roche
‘You’re better off not doing the job. You’re better off going into your own house at night rather than the hospital, or not at all’. These were the words from Deputy Michael Healy-Rae earlier this week on the topic of farm safety, as Health and Safety Authority figures show that so far in 2025, there have been six farm fatalities.
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1 week ago | 
southernstar.ie | Emma Connolly
Our intrepid columnist’s wardrobe isn’t up to scratch it seems, but not necessarily for the reasons you might think. WHATEVER happened to the idea of our ‘Sunday Best’ I wonder? Somewhere along the way it’s a thing that’s been mainly abandoned – I was going to blame lockdown because that’s when my own personal love affair with leggings was born, but I think it happened before that.
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1 week ago | 
southernstar.ie | Emma Connolly
THE hugely popular Ewe experience in Glengarriff, the country’s only interactive and interpretative sculpture garden, is to close at the end of August. Kurt Lyndorf, a former war correspondent originally from Denmark, and Sheena Wood, an artist originally from the UK, have run the unique attraction for the past 32 years and say it’s time for them to explore new opportunities.
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1 week ago | 
southernstar.ie | Emma Connolly
EXCITING times lie ahead for primary school education in Rosscarbery, with the opening of a new co-educational school. St Mary’s NS and Ardagh NS are amalgamating and from September, will be called Bunscoil Fachtna, after Rosscarbery’s patron saint. Principal of St Mary’s, Sarah O’Brien explained how the motivation for the move was to provide mixed-sex education from junior infants right up to sixth class.
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2 weeks ago | 
southernstar.ie | Emma Connolly
KINSALE Community School (KCS) is one of 43 schools nationwide that will pilot a new Leaving Cert subject called ‘Climate Change and Sustainable Development’ from next September. The subject aims to develop students’ capacity for informed and meaningful action for a just and sustainable world as they engage with key sustainability challenges, including the climate crisis, according to the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA).
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2 weeks ago | 
southernstar.ie | Emma Connolly
FERTILISER imports should be subjected to the same stringent regulations as farmers as inconsistencies in density and granule size is causing problems locally. That’s according to the West Cork IFA branch who are highlighting the problem at government level because of the impact it’s having on their work, and subsequently their finances.
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2 weeks ago | 
southernstar.ie | Emma Connolly
WITH five bedrooms, four bathrooms and two kitchens, a property in Cloghagh North screams ‘family home.’The house which spans 2,700 sq ft is located in the countryside but is well connected with Timoleague six minutes away, and it’s within a 15 minute drive of Clonakilty and Bandon. It delivers a lot for its asking price of €595,000 including stylish and generously sized living spaces and equally attractive outdoor areas on a 0.6 acre site.
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2 weeks ago | 
southernstar.ie | Emma Connolly
With show season in full flight, we look ahead to four of the biggest, which are yet to take place. AS soon as the gates close on an agricultural show, the planning starts for next year’s instalment almost immediately. That’s the feedback from tireless stalwarts who work 12 months of the year to ensure the long-standing tradition of agricultural shows not only continues, but thrives throughout West Cork.
