WOULD that the marine biologists working on eradicating Sargassum, an invasive brown weed, at Lough Hyne in west Cork, found a way to eliminate the green weed plaguing shallow bays all over Ireland.

THE Great Southern Trail promises to be one of the finest long-distance waymarked walks in Ireland.

LAST week, through the windows of a TransPennine train in the north of England, I saw sheep grazing the hill slopes.

THIS may come to be known as the sunless summer.

MY youngest grandchild, Luca, aged three, visiting us from Bohemia in the Czech Republic, delights in feeding our adopted heron which stands as tall as himself.

WILD plants have flowered extravagantly this summer.

I NOTICE the dozen swallows and house martins, that sat on the wires above the village street in April and May, have multiplied.

WE have found remote, west Cork beaches free of the noxious green sea ‘lettuce’ that has plagued so many Irish estuaries and strands.

IT was a singular pleasure to be able to show off Ireland at its best to our visitors from the balmy isles of the Canaries.

THIS is the season of roses.