Jackie Keogh Reporter
  • Cork
  • The Southern Star

Jackie is a reporter at The Southern Star in West Cork.

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583 Articles
8 months ago
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VIP guest Val to attend ceremony for new lifeboat

COURTMACSHERRY’S historic lifeboat station will be the venue, on Saturday, for a naming ceremony of the Val Adnams, i...

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8 months ago
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Plans for cashless NCT tests are a ‘matter of stupidity’ – Cllr Hurley

A GOVERNMENT commitment to bringing in legislation to prevent businesses going cashless can’t come soon enough, accor...

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8 months ago
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Hot desks and ‘office pods’ for chapel gutted by fire

WORK has started on the development of apartments at a Skibbereen site which includes a chapel that was gutted in a m...

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8 months ago
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Yarn bombers get active in Schull

THE Schull Knit and Natter group has yarn-bombed the village for no reason other than to make peoplesmile.Children we...

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8 months ago
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Visitor centre at stunning Mizen Head gets the works in time for summer 2024

As summer comes to an end, Jackie Keogh takes a trip to one of the region’s most beautiful peninsulas, and its top at...

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8 months ago
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Vapes a litter issue on West Cork beaches

FOUR coastal areas in West Cork – Castletownbere, Bantry, Kinsale, and Ballinacurra – have failed the litter standard...

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8 months ago
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Strand ‘littered with faeces’ due to lack of toilets

BEACHGOERS are defecating in bushes and back gardens at Long Strand, according to Independent Cllr Paul Hayes.The cou...

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8 months ago
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Don’t be ‘put off’ by beach rats

A COUNCILLOR has asked people not to be put off by a rat infestation at Ballyrisode beach.Cllr Caroline Cronin (FG) c...

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8 months ago
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Principal pleads for bus for his students

KINSALE Community School principal Fergal McCarthy has called on Bus Éireann to provide a bus for the 30 students in ...

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8 months ago
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Famous local hospitality dispelled young Armagh reporter’s unease

Following the passing of former Southern Star reporter Paddy McGarvey, his family reached out and reminded current re...

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8 months ago
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Tourists were left temporarily stranded on Dursey Island

FIFTY people are believed to have been left temporarily stranded on Dursey Island after the cable car closed recently...

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‘It was carnage’ says experienced Ironman

An experienced Ironman competitor from West Cork has described last week’s Ironman swim, in which two men died, as ‘c...

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