Road trip! Five great Cork day trip excursions to take now we can travel within the county

Beauty spots, beaches and outdoor dining - there's a lot going on within driving distance

Ardnahinch Beach: madra just out of sight

After four months of level five restrictions, the Universe and Micheál Martin have finally aligned to extend our lockdown limits to countywide boundaries. 

As a native Corkonian, you could say I’ve drawn the geographical long straw, blessed with our unrivalled span of countryside, mountains and 1094km of coastline to reacquaint myself with. And it wasn’t long before I did so either.