The Southern Star

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.

2 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.

3 days ago | southernstar.ie | Kieran McCarthy

NUALA Carey has a habit of hitting the headlines in her local paper. This week it’s her selection on the Ireland Masters’ women’s basketball team for the FIMBA World Championships in June. Back in November 1998 Nuala was in The Southern Star headlines as the ‘First Drimoleague girl selected for Irish U16s’. There’s a link between both stories: her love for basketball.

5 days ago | southernstar.ie | Kieran McCarthy

BALTIMORE left it late to snatch a dramatic 3-2 away win against Ardfield on Monday to move joint-top of the OBrienWaterServices.com Championship. Already guaranteed promotion along with Lyre Rovers, all that is left to be decided is which of the two teams will go up as champions. Baltimore’s latest win means they join Lyre on 43 points and both have only one game left – both teams must play Ardfield in the coming weeks, with Baltimore hosting Ardfield this Sunday.