Emma Connolly Deputy Editor
  • Cork
  • The Southern Star

Emma is deputy editor of The Southern Star. Emma has been working as Life & Community editor in recent years, having come to The Southern Star from the Evening Echo in Cork city, part of the Irish Examiner stable, where she was news editor.

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542 Articles
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‘Vat’ can you do, Minister?

A group of West Cork restaurateurs and café owners met with Minister for Finance Michael McGrath last Friday.

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‘Vat’ can you do, Minister?

A group of West Cork restaurateurs and café owners met with Minister for Finance Michael McGrath last Friday.

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5 months
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Safe Schull hands steer steer Queen Anne back to sea on maiden Cork voyage

The €500m 113,000-tonne liner Queen Anne was in safe West Cork hands on its maiden voyage from Liverpool to Cobh.

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Anaïs’s 10,000km kayak for the RNLI

PASSIONATE West Cork kayaker Anaïs O’Donovan is part of a group undertaking an ambitious fundraiser next month for th...

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My weekend opportunity to glimpse into the working life of my man-of-mystery husband

Our columnist still can’t get her head around what her husband does. But she got a look inside his world at the weeke...

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Support service brings hope with a Hugg

The Hugg support service was set up in 2016 by Fiona Tuomey. Now a Skibbereen branch is offering support in West Cork...

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Principals claim vulnerable pupils are being let down

WEST Cork school principals have said their most vulnerable pupils will be worst impacted as a new process means thei...

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It’s time to forget about summer bodies and embrace positively, wonderful, me!

Between meeting Mick Wallace on the road, getting beach-ready and power-washing the house for the American cousins, i...

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US professor here to tell story of the forgotten miners of Beara

AN Irish American professor who instigated a memorial to honour more than 1,000 immigrants from the Beara peninsula w...

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Cllr Coakley opts to put her poster purse into WCRR

Cllr Karen Coakley has donated €500 to West Cork Rapid Response in lieu of putting up posters as part of her local el...

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Cute calves and communion party capers put a bounce in my step

NOTHING brought me so much joy this week as seeing baby calves out in the fields for the very first time

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Joe honoured for being a real ‘class’ act

A WEST Cork teacher has been honoured for the transformative role he played in the life of a former student.And he cr...

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