GREAT news for Courtmacsherry Bay.

Damien Enright on our Christian conscience.

THE full moon was glorious last week, and tides were very high, forcing the birds of the estuary to roost high up on the shore. There was a feast of forms and feathers for my friend, a birdwatcher, who arrived from London, to differentiate and name.

“Summer’s lease hath all too short a date ...’— William Shakespeare

Damien Enright on the joys an Indian summer brings.

THE other night in the pub in the quiet seaside village of Courtmacsherry (in September, it returns to its native peace) we had young Brian O’Donovan tell us about what he and his brother Barry, joint skippers of their trawler Sea Venture, caught in their nets a few nights before. He made a great job of the telling. The item wasn’t exactly nature, although it was encrusted with nature. It was a World War II mine.

Damien Enright on how the amazing energy of ants is still a sight to behold.

FERMANAGH is a lovely inland county, replete with lakes and countryside that are a joy to behold.

EXCUSE MY old Norse but what a bummer of a summer to come home to, after flying all the way from Iceland.

Newly-arrived visitors to Ireland, passing Inchy Bridge on the Argideen River at midnight, could be forgiven for drawing the wrong conclusions upon seeing a huddle of men in polaroid glasses standing about, hands deep in pockets or leaning on the parapet looking into the water below.