Damien Enright: When the weather is good, West Cork is better than the Mediterranean

Such fine spring days in Ireland should be honoured

Cliona Ahern, Ballinora, Co. Cork, with some beautiful bluebells at in Skibbereen, Co. Cork. Picture: Denis Minihane.

Last Wednesday, the weather was as good as one could want it. Writing this column on Thursday, I can't say what weather we are experiencing in Munster today, Easter Monday. I hope, for the sake of folk going west from Cork city and the inland towns that the "light rain showers" forecast by Met Eireann will be generously interspersed with long "patches of bright sunlight". When the weather here is good, it can be more pleasant than that of the Mediterranean or, indeed, the Canary Islands.

My wife and I returned from La Gomera, a small island off Tenerife, five days ago. A walk I took in West Cork last Wednesday morning was as enjoyable than any I'd taken over the four months we were on that famously walk-able island.