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southernstar.ie | Jackie Keogh
THE organisers of this year’s Fastnet Film Festival had much to celebrate at their launch party at The Crane Lane in Cork city last week, as festival director Tom McCarthy and creative advisor Lenny Abrahamson said this year promises a thrilling mix of Hollywood stars, screenings, panels, and special guest events in Schull. The cast attending the five-day festival includes actors Bill Pullman, Barry Keoghan and Domhnall Gleeson, plus many others who have yet to be announced.
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southernstar.ie | Jackie Keogh
A RAISED crossing in Glengarriff village to combat speeding motorists will not be put in place until the road surface on the N71 is being renewed, at the very least, a recent Council meeting heard.
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southernstar.ie | Jackie Keogh
AN Bord Pleanála’s decision to quash the planning granted by Cork County Council to West Cork Distillers to build six maturation warehouses at Tullig, near Rosscarbery, may become the subject of a judicial review.
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southernstar.ie | Jackie Keogh
A MID-MORNING call-out to Courtmacsherry RNLI resulted in a lone fisherman having his boat mended on the spot. Vincent O’Donovan, Courtmacsherry’s launch authority and press officer, told The Southern Star they got the call at 11.22am on Wednesday, May 7th and the crew on board the Val Adnams immediately went to the aid of the fisherman on board the 18ft vessel.
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southernstar.ie | Jackie Keogh
THE discovery of a stone with mysterious markings led to a sleuthing expedition by local historian and archaeologist Finola Finlay. Willie O’Regan got in touch with The Southern Star after finding a green-coloured rock in a ditch along the water’s edge on Inchydoney Island, and that spurred the quest. Mr O’Regan explained that the area around the rock had been washed away by the tides and he wondered if the rock, partly hidden by an overhanging bush, could be an ancient Ogham stone?
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