The CountryWide team feature the events, people and happenings that bring colour and life to communities, towns and villages across the country.

How one man's drink-induced unconscious trip in 12th century Cork reshaped how the Western world imagines eternal damnation

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Irish writer, filmmaker, and language advocate Manchán Magan is remembered for his books, documentaries, and deep love of Ireland’s spirit

Diet allows modest meat consumption and would also slash food-related climate emissions by half, says report by 70 leading experts from 35 countries Adoption of a plant-rich “planetary health diet” could prevent 40,000 early deaths a day across the world, according to a landmark report. The diet – which allows moderate meat consumption – and related measures would also slash the food-related emissions driving global heating by half by 2050. Today, a third of greenhouse gas emissions come from the global food system and taming the climate crisis is impossible without changing how the world eats, the researchers said. Food production is also the biggest cause of the destruction of wildlife and forests and the pollution of water. Continue reading...

In his first major statement on climate change, the pontiff criticises those who minimise climate change.

Councillor Kenneth Collins has written to Cork City Council to request that they engage in the Part 8 process for a development beside Neptune ...

Jane Goodall Institute says ‘tireless advocate’ for natural world died in California during US speaking tour The world-renowned primatologist Jane Goodall has died at the age of 91, her institute has said. The Jane Goodall Institute announced that she had passed away of natural causes while in California as part of a US speaking tour. Continue reading...

The inter-agency group set up last month to investigate the cause of the large fish kill on the River Blackwater near Mallow in Co Cork in early August has concluded its work, but says it has not been...