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What If We Were Brilliant? is a hopeful and creative project by Brilliant Ballybunion and artist Lisa Fingleton that explores how communities can be “brilliant not brutal” in the face of biodiversity loss and climate change. The project has been selected for the Irish...

BOOKED OUT Music for the early birds! Enjoy the wonder of the dawn chorus at The Barna Way as part of the Ballybunion MOYA festival. Wonderful to see so many people booked in to witness the magic of the waking woodland with Sean Cullhane and Rena Blake Did you know...

We are full of BEANS and are so excited to invite you to the launch of the Ballybunion BEAN Festival at 7pm on Sat, 3rd May, outside Coast Cafe. Whether you have BEAN gardening for years or are a total newBEAN, we have the BEAN for you! Come plant your own organic...

The Ballybunion Bean Festival promises to be one of the highlights of summer 2025. Don't miss the Bean Bake Off on the beach and explore the potential of beans as the most fun and climate friendly food for the future. The community will spend months nurturing these...

Calling all nature enthusiasts - A new community group is forming in Ballybunion for anyone interested in Nature. We live surrounded by a unique and special coastline where we have many important species of plants and animals. One of those species is the ringed...

Welcome to North Kerry Sustainability Day! Date: Sun, Feb 23, 2025 Time: 10:30 AM Location: Tintean Theatre ...

We had another fantastic Friday on the Farm this week. Lots of delicious food harvested at @thebarnaway and prepared by Stephanie from Rituals of Plate, who also preserved a lot of food for our upcoming Winter events. We had a film screening of the films created so...

Thanks to Anne Maher and all the team at The Urban Co-Op in Limerick city for a fantastic visit. We just stopped off for delicious homemade scones (local flour, butter and jam) with organic teas and coffees. So inspiring to hear about the journey of the co-op and...

Thanks to the brilliant Ian McGregor for the wonderful visit to Gortbrack Farm. Great to see how fields can be transformed into multiple habitats with forests, ponds, bog and vegetable gardens. Ian showed us how much water is stored in sphagnum moss and we even got to...

Another brilliant day filming for the Homegrown series for RTE in Ballybunion at The Barna Way, the Beach Hive and at the sea with ecologist and B Team member Dr Joanne O'Brien. Thanks to Mark, Raj, Tony and Colm from RTE for being so well organised and interested in...

TEANGA, TIMPEALLACHT AGUS TALAMH Thank you to everyone who came to our Sing For Your Supper event as part of Ballybunion Arts Festival. We had such a wonderful evening of song and culture in Gaeilge (Irish), English, Polish and Yкраїнська (Ukrainian) in the style of...

Another great Friday on the Farm. Thanks to Steph from Rituals of Plate for a wonderful ContemPLATE workshop. We started with a grounding and mindful walk to the polytunnel where we connected to the plants, fruit and veg through drawing. A reminder to ‘walk...

We had another brilliant day at Friday On The Farm at The Barna Way. Fantastic to see the meadows in full bloom with ragged robin, plantain, buttercup and lots of cuckoo spit (the home of tiny green frog hoppers).. the magical scent of honeysuckle and lots of bird...

As part of Brillliant Ballybunion we are running a Wild About Life programme with ecologist Dr Joanne O Brien. Earlier this summer we had planned to go Dolphin watching but as the weather forecast threatened wind, we decided to reschedule that event and hold a...

What a brilliant day at Ballymaloe Food Festival!! Lots of great conversations about food and how to create healthy, inclusive and resilient soil and food systems in the context of biodiversity loss and climate change. Well done to our community collaborators...

What a brilliant day on our third Friday on Farm with our amazing project collaborators. We started with delicious scones made by Rena followed by meditation and reflection in the forest. Then we made mini meadows from recycled paper, soil and organic meadow seed....