Some may be in need of tender loving care, but properties at this Valentine’s Day auction could provide the perfect match, writes Tommy Barker

We often hear how nature will do well, even come back from the brink of extinction, if given a chance and some human help.

The Port of Cork has had a record season for cruise liner visits with 100 vessels bringing nearly a quarter of a million passengers and crew to the region.

Irish flora and fauna helped form a crucial part of the nation’s history, writes Fiann Ó Nualláin.

A bed believed to have belonged to Bonaparte’s wife is up for grabs in Thurles, writes Des O’Sullivan.

We’d been warned about the trains. Or, to be more accurate, the stations. People with experience of Japan looked on us with pity, like raw recruits being sent over the top to impending doom. Ominous warnings were sounded and tales told of underground labyrinths teeming with commuters and the odd tourist rooted to the spot in awe and confusion.

Over the past week, you may already have taken the opportunity to forage, forest-bathe, or sample bush-tucker burgers courtesy of visiting Australian twin chefs Luke and Samuel Bourke, but there is still lots more to enjoy from the event that has been billed as Ireland’s largest food festival.

Sorting out Cork people for ages.

The coroner apologised to the two families in court about the adjournment.

Glorious Glengarriff and Garinish, the ‘near island’,can indeed be called gems in that they are precious, more precious with every passing year, trenchant survivors of that classical Irish scenery beloved of Victorians, trees and mountains reflected on still brown waters.

When your opening championship game of the summer is a 16-point hammering on home soil and your last is the All-Ireland final, it goes without saying that there came a turning point somewhere along the road.

Bride and groom Aoife O’Callaghan and Finbarr McCarthy returned to the scene of their first encounter — and first date — on their big day.

As an introduction to our islands, this heritage week programme has a selection of lovely islands and a wide range of activities to entice you.

Plans are advanced in Glengarriff to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the late, legendary Hollywood actress Maureen O’Hara.

The annual four-day Tour de Munster charity cycle came to a close on Cork’s gruelling St Patrick’s Hill today.

Nettle cake, anyone? The way forager and garden designer Kloë Wood describes her version of it, you’ll be asking for seconds.

For sheer unadulterated exhilaration, it is hard to beat a boat excursion to the Bull Rock off Dursey Island, Co Cork.

Meet Tim O’Leary from Whiddy Island: He’s the local ferryman, postman, farmer and publican.

Setting off from Drishane House, Peter Dowdall explores West Cork’s very own Gardens of Eden.

Three public water schemes in Cork have been removed from a list of potentially dangerous supplies by the environment watchdog. This follows upgrade works by Irish Water.

Given the many setbacks an exciting, eagle reintroduction project has suffered, any smidgeon of positive news is welcome.

A national blueprint for more balanced growth in Ireland has identified a number of key infrastructure projects vital for sustaining and increasing the population in West Cork.

Every now and then the past reaches forward to touch us on a shoulder, reminding us that we are echoes of what has gone before and just as susceptible to catastrophe as our forefathers.

Last week I shamelessly exploited my corner here to publicise GAA Eile, the TV series which started last Monday and continues this evening on RTÉ One at 8.30pm.

Built on a foundation of friendship and innovation, West Cork Distillers was established in 2003 by three lifelong friends, Denis McCarthy, Ger McCarthy and John O’Connell in the heart of West Cork at Union Hall.

Irish Water has appealed to farmers, ahead of the spraying season, after finding pesticides breaching EU levels in several public water supplies.

We have a long tradition of less than rigorous regulation in myriad areas.

When the opportunity to purchase the Eccles Hotel in Glengarriff presented itself to Ray Byrne in 2016, it marked a return to his early career roots in a region that had long captivated his imagination.

When the opportunity to purchase the Eccles Hotel in Glengarriff presented itself to Ray Byrne in 2016, it marked a return to his early career roots in a region that had long captivated his imagination.

One of the largest farms to hit the market in Co Cork this year so far is for sale with Dunmanway-based auctioneers Lehanes & Associates.

AN ENTIRE holiday home complex under the Caha mountains, on 10 waterfronting acres next door to movie maker and writer Neil Jordan’s West Cork hideaway, has come for sale, trading exceptionally well thanks to new management and the boost of the Wild Atlantic Way.

This Garinish at Glengarriff Co Cork, is one of four to share the name in the country.

Glengarriff will reverberate to the melody of the uilleann pipes for four days this week as the whole town becomes a trad music venue for the annual Jim Dowling Uilleann Pipes and Trad Festival.

The lack of approval from Irish Water is preventing Cork County Council “taking in charge” 74 housing estates.

Plans to close a spectacular mountain route between Cork and Kerry for road repairs have been postponed.

Yesterday morning was like any other Friday for Charlie’s, the early house on Union Quay.

Tommy Barker ‘leafs’ no stone unturned in his praise of this eco-framed timber beauty at glorious Glengarriff Woods.

Residents in West Cork are being asked to clear scrub vegetation from around family homes amid fears of a spate of illegally-set wildfires in the weeks ahead.

Carrickfern’s high-flying owners are selling up and heading home to Canada, hoping to take with them happy memories of times spent at their West Cork home, bought only a few years ago, reports Tommy Barker

Few things can strengthen a community better than an active sense of civic pride or a sense of place that encourages people to come together to overcome difficulties in a way that shapes their own and their community’s destiny.

Residents who saved an unfinished holiday village from becoming a derelict ghost estate have criticised delays in taking the estate in charge.

Hopes are rising that an Irish-bred, white-tailed eagle will produce a chick in 2018, writes Donal Hickey