Jan 31, 2026 | Eco, Featured, Media, News
Brilliant Ballybunion was delighted to welcome Uachtarán na hÉireann, President Catherine Connolly and Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport, Patrick O’Donovan and 500 guests to Ballybunion on Friday 30th January. Both attended ‘What if We Were Brilliant?’, a celebration event to mark the culmination of this dynamic, community-led, creative climate action initiative. Over the last two years the Brilliant Ballybunion group has been focusing on growing food, being creative and protecting nature.
Jan 3, 2026 | Eco, Media, News
Nature, food, creativity – that’s Brilliant Ballybunion’s recipe for community climate action. The enormity of climate change and biodiversity loss can leave the individual feeling disempowered, but by coming together and acting locally, we can transform how we feel and create change, the group believes. Brilliant Ballybunion began with a call out to the north Kerry community for those passionate about nature, food or creativity to collaborate. Nature-lovers, farmers, bird watchers, photographers, sketchers, writers and ecologists came forward and so began a journey of creative climate action- Joanne Hunt
Sep 5, 2025 | Eco, Featured, Media, News, Writing
The Ballybunion Bean Festival focused on the potential of beans as the most fun and climate friendly food for the future. The Ballybunion Bean Festival was organised by Brilliant Ballybunion, a creative climate action project that focuses of supporting community...
Sep 5, 2025 | Eco, Featured, Media, News
What If We Were Brilliant? is a hopeful and creative project by Brilliant Ballybunion and artist Lisa Fingleton for IMMA Earth Rising 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 Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) Earth Rising festival from 12th-14th September. Earlier this year IMMA invited proposals for collaborations between visual artists, Irish-based environmental groups, and local communities and Brilliant Ballybunion was one of the four* selected projects.
