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Memories of Flowers
In Ballydehob, the enormous photographic archive of a London photographer who holidayed in West Cork raises questions about memories and loss; about…
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Ellie O'Byrne
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Fighting for A-class
Fearless 16-year-old Ballyphehane Muay Thai fighter Aideen Mullins is taking on an opponent in her thirties in her first senior kickboxing showdown, and…
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Ellie O'Byrne
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Car-free in Cork: week four
Ellie rides off into the sunset by bike, bus and train...but is she going to stay car-free?
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Ellie O'Byrne
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Car-free in Cork: week three
A week of two halves, from cooped up working from home to the wilds of the Burren....but how can rural Ireland go car free with transport links that are…
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Ellie O'Byrne
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Car-free in Cork: week two
Crisp, chilly weather makes cycling a pleasure this week, and there's zero spend on transport.
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Ellie O'Byrne
Car-free in Cork: the first week
It's the first week of a car-free month for Ellie and the weather gods are not smiling, but cackling maniacally....
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Ellie O'Byrne
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Lessons from the road
Clonakilty woman Anja Bakker and her trusty harp Seán are almost halfway to Jerusalem on their 7,000km pilgrimage of a lifetime. She tells Tripe …
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Ellie O'Byrne
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