Emma Connolly

1 day ago | southernstar.ie | Emma Connolly

From rearing beef cattle and turkeys to practising and teaching yoga, farmer Gerard Keohane is focused on wellbeing and a good work-life balance, writesAGILE is a good word to describe Gerard Keohane, based just outside Clonakilty, although he says himself that ‘unorthodox’ might be a better fit. He’s certainly agile when it comes to his approach to farming, having embarked on his career as a dairy farmer, and later pivoting to a suckler operation with a small herd of pedigree Aberdeen Angus.

2 days ago | southernstar.ie | Emma Connolly

Leading actors grab the limelight, but there’s plenty of fun in the background too, as one Union Hall woman tells Emma ConnollyIT was her dad’s dairy cows that gave Union Hall woman Maura O’Callaghan her first taste of filmmaking as a teen in War of the Buttons and since then she’s worked on hit Hollywood movies, the award-winning series Bad Sisters and popular RTÉ soap Fair City.

3 days ago | southernstar.ie | Emma Connolly

ALL this fabulous weather we’ve been enjoying has unleashed an unexpected passion in me ... a burning desire for hardware shops. I know! I didn’t see that one coming either. I popped in to a local one the other day to collect one particular innocuous item, some wood filler. I expected it to be a three-minute mission, five at most, but an hour later I was still browsing the aisles, trance-like, in wonder at it all.

1 week ago | southernstar.ie | Emma Connolly

A car trip, a dog with a dodgy tum and a stressed-out hubby made for a memorable day out recently. • HEADING into the Bank Holiday Weekend and my thoughts aren’t centred around getting the boat out (mainly because I don’t have a boat), but are down to the fact that I’m entirely preoccupied by how fast the year is going. It blows my mind that we’re already into May. I’ve only one word: how?

1 week ago | southernstar.ie | Emma Connolly

THE very first time Grace Cotter set eyes on Rockhouse in Kilmacsimon overlooking the River Bandon, she knew it was going to be home. At the time the couple, who featured in the most recent series of RTÉ’s The Great Home Revival had been planning to build a family home in John’s native East Cork; and while Grace admitted to being a West Cork person in her heart of hearts, she felt it was the right move for them.