WINDFARMS provide energy, may be environmentally-friendly and welcome — until they interfere with your television reception.

HIDDEN gems continue to be unveiled in Killarney National Park.

ANGLERS are, arguably, the best watchdogs you can have regarding water quality. They are the first to take note when things go wrong, but all too often the powers-that-be do not listen to them.

IRISH people still clinging the old faith probably ate fish on Good Friday, even if some of the traditionalists might have been reluctant enough about it.

GIVEN that many of the sources of our drinking water are polluted, about the only surprise to emerge from the current contamination of public water supplies in Galway is that it did not happen a long time ago, somewhere in the country.

TRAVEL outside any Irish town, on a Monday morning, for about just as long as it takes to eat a carton of chips and you’re almost certain to find packaging strewn around the roadside.

HOW to protect the many ancient treasures of the Burren is becoming a challenge, with monuments under threat from scrub which has grown prolifically in the past 30 years.

CALLS to allow landowners charge walkers going onto their property are being rejected by the Government, for the moment at least.

THERE can be few more magnificent sights off the coast than the spectacle of the Skellig Rocks sitting serenely in the Atlantic on a clear, sunny day. But, of the two million tourists that come to the south-west each year, only a fraction ever go to the trouble of taking a ferry to these remote citadels.

In the boating community, of which I’m a member, there has been some discussion recently about the negative effects of the wash or wake that boats produce.