Restaurant review: The Lifeboat Inn, Courtmacsherry
COURTMACSHERRY is an especially gorgeous little west Cork seaside haven but, equally, there’s a gritty, independent character to the place and a populace who have never quite embraced the more homegenised tropes of ‘Cead Míle Fáilte’ Ireland — a popular local bumper sticker advertises it as a ‘drinking village with a fishing problem’.
In August 2015, the sole surviving village shop finally closed, a familiar story of rural decline in 21st century Ireland. But fewer rural communities have the gumption to subsequently establish and operate their own community shop, as locals have been doing since June 2016.
