All posts by Richie

Visit Whiddy Island

Tuesday 24/03/2015 Richie

Visit Whiddy Island, just off the coast at Bantry harbour lies the island of Whiddy. A magical mysterious island to spend a pleasant day or two on discovering its natural and historical beauty. Get in touch with Tim O’Leary and he will arrange your ferry trip. There is the Bank house bar on the island for food and refreshments and you can walk or cycle around the island at your leisure. The island also has some rental homes if you fancy a tranquil time away from the mad rush of mainland life. Check out whiddyferry.com for information. They have started up guided tours for 2015, very knowledgeable guide. Make this year, Visit Whiddy Island year.

Maybe even some of the crew from RedFM should visit too, as they don’t seem to know where Whiddy Island is…

This is my third video of West Cork Islands which I have made simply for my own pleasure. Promoting the Beara and West Cork.

Watch a video of Whiddy Island here

I have now made this the second version of the video. A lovely day again for the second visit. Make sure that 2015 is your year to visit Whiddy Island too…

Visit Whiddy Island

visit-whiddy-island-1 — Whiddy Island School

visit-whiddy-island-3 — Site of old Graveyard and Church

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Allihies, Beara, Events

Allihies Fashion Extravaganza

Saturday 21/03/2015 Richie

Allihies Fashion Extravaganza, Allihies Ladies Group in conjunction with ‘Illusions Boutique’ of Dunmanway were proud to present to you, a fashion show. This was a not-to-be-missed event. Entrance Fee was only €5. An extremely worthwhile event making some money for Palliative Care.

The models were all local and made a fantastic job of the show. They really looked like they had all lots of experience on the cat walk. Well done to them. I guess there was lots of work done behind the scenes as well.

Watch the short three minute film…

Allihies Fashion Extravaganza

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Beara, Castletownbere, Events, Music

St Patricks Day

Tuesday 17/03/2015 Richie

St Patricks Day in Castletownbere 2015 was a great event. The weather was with the crowd and lots of floats turned up for the day hoping to take the first prize for the best dressed up team. There was the normal inter school competition to see who would be the top of the bunch and some of the principals were fighting for the top position…

I still don’t know who won. In any case I put together a video of the floats and did it twice, one with the natural sound of what was going on and the second backed by the Lehanmore Community groups playing in Mac Carthy’s bar after the event.