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My Path to Sweet Success
French born master chocolatier Benoit Lorge was recently chosen by Kerry Local Enterprise Office to represent the county in this year’s National Enterprise Awards, adding yet another recognition to his impressive haul of accolades. Here, he tells Heike O’Sullivan about his ‘Path to Sweet Success’. ‘Growing up in Nancy, Lorraine, my grandmother Henriette was a huge inspiration to me. She was a traditional French cook with a great knowledge of food. When I was in my teens, a friend was training to be a pastry chef. I’ve always loved sweets and decided to go down the same route, knowing that, as a pastry chef, I could find work pretty much…
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People Power Averts Tunnel Vision
Do you have an appointment coming up at Bantry Hospital, or do you currently visit there frequently to call on a loved one? Are you one of the many commuters or delivery van drivers on Bonane’s ‘Tunnel Road’, connecting Kenmare and Glengarriff? A Kerry farmer, heading to Bantry’s farm shops for cattle or sheep nuts, or bale wrap? Or perhaps a Cork farmer, taking livestock to Kenmare Mart? If so, then you will be delighted and relieved to know that thanks to local people power from both sides of the Cork/Kerry border, astonishingly short sighted decisions by Kerry and Cork County Councils to temporarily close the Tunnel at Turner’s Rock…
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Special Novena begins with Mass at Inse an tSagairt
Any casual observer on the road leading into Baurearagh Valley, or travelling on the Knockduff road last night will be forgiven for wondering what the large accumulation of parked cars was all about. Coillte, the state-owned forestry company, had given permission to open the barrier preventing vehicular traffic from travelling down its forest track. Along the track, in lay-bys and the turning circle at the bottom of the roadway cars, vans and jeeps were competing for parking space. Groups of people, some small, some larger; people walking in pairs or – occasionally – on their own, made their way down to the Baurearagh River. They ignored the stepping stones leading…