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Plastic-free July: The verdict

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Plastic-free July: The verdict

It's been a busy month, made busier by my attempts to try and curb the amount of waste emanating from our small (ish) household of two adults, one baby and two small dogs. One of the reasons I decided to try the plastic-free July experiement was the mountains of stuff we were throwing out every week. [...]

2018-12-01T09:53:11+00:00 July 28th, 2017|Categories: Personal|Tags: Arbutus Bread, Bia Beauty, bulk buying, Centra, Chair salon, Chicken Inn, cloth nappies, Cobh, coffee, cooking, Cork, East Cork, English Market, environmental, Evo Hair, farmers markets, fruit, Glenisk, Green Earth Organics, Green policies, healthy eating, Hickeys of Maylor Street, incentive, Ireland, Keatings Londis, keep cup, Lush, Mac, Musgrave, nappies, O'Mahony's Butchers, ocean plastic, Organic Republic, packaging, plastic, plastic free july, political activism, retail, sanitary products, shopping, Super Valu, vegetables|

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Gourmets, gluttons and drinkers of distinction welcome in Dingle

Opinion

Gourmets, gluttons and drinkers of distinction welcome in Dingle

The Dingle Food Festival is one of the country’s best kept secrets, although in the three years since I was last there, it seems they have rather let the cat out of the bag. With bigger crowds than ever before, one organiser estimated that it brought 20,000 visitors to the town this year. The [...]

2018-12-01T09:55:45+00:00 November 4th, 2015|Categories: Opinion|Tags: Atlantic Ocean, Badger and Dodo, Benner's Hotel, Blackwater Gin, Blas na hEireann, coffee, Dingle, Dingle Bay Charters, Dingle Food Festival, Dingle GAA, Dingle Gin, fish, food, Fungie, history, Kerry, McCarthy's Kanturk, Mike Dooley, Old Irish Creamery Cheese, Porterhouse, Rosscarbery Recipes, spiced beef, tour, travel, Wild Atlantic Way|

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