West Cork

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St James, West Cork outsiders last season, now take their place at ... (Echo Live)

Small Carbery club upset the odds to land a divisional crown in 2022.

A 2-10 to 2-7 Kilmurry win preceded the Muskerry club’s 1-10 to 1-6 semi-final defeat of Urhan, and 1-12 to 0-8 county final victory over Cobh. The two-time West Cork football champions possess a necessary and varied scoring threat. St James’ final group clash is against last year’s junior football county champions, Kilmurry, in Ahiohill, on September 8. We were ranked the seventeenth best team in West Cork football at the start of the championship. This is a mentally tough and driven group. Well, we are out of the junior ranks now.

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State-of-the-art lifeboat to arrive at West Cork lifeboat station this ... (Echo Live)

Named 'Val Adnams', the is due to arrive in Courtmacsherry, led by a flotilla of local boats, at exactly 13.45.

Of note is that the Shannon class was designed by Derry man Peter Eyre who as a child was rescued himself by Lough Swilly RNLI in Donegal. The lifeboat is the latest in a long line of search and rescue boats provided by the RNLI to Courtmacsherry over the past 198 years. THE West Cork community of Courtmacsherry is set to welcome the latest RNLI lifeboat to be based in Ireland, to their village on Sunday.

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€8000 acre sought for 19-acre in West Cork (Irish Examiner)

In the world of agricultural land, tidier parcels of pasture are often the most desired as they draw interest from a wide variety of potential buyers.

The property contains a derelict farmhouse and a hay barn with a double lean-to. It’s an executor sale, and the lands have been leased out for a number of years.” Although much of it contains land that requires work to bring it up to maximum potential, the interest is good.

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