Restaurant review: Room with a sea view at the Seafood restaurant, Ballycotton

Pier 26 Seafood Restaurant, Ballycotton, Co Cork, 

ONE of those old, pre-internet masters-of-the-universe press barons Lord Beaverbrook — a Mark Zuckerberg of his time but in a far, far better suit — once described his idea of what a good newspaper should be: “Just like the sea, the same but different every day.”

That fluctuating-certainty ideal applies to any decent body of water, river or lake, and it is hard to think of better way to really relax, to really wash down to self, than to sit and watch a stretch of water almost to the point where it absorbs you.