Half-a-million euro has been allocated by the Department of Rural and Community Development to 350 men’s sheds across the country.

Irish Water has warned of some water treatment plants struggling to cope because of exceptionally high demand.

Carina McNally visits Alex Skade’s sanctuary in West Cork where helping animals in need of care provides a form of spiritual escape

Do you ever notice once the time changes and the sun puts in a token appearance this country turns its face en masse to summer and summer holidays in particular?

A remote rural parish famous for its copper mines is set to get wired for the future.

Good morning. Here’s everything you need to know before you start your day.

Just coming up on 10 years old, in great shape and superbly finished is this Allihies 2,800 sq ft home — painted white, and that’s really atypical of the West Cork village and its colourful hinterland.

Hollywood legend Jeremy Irons is expected to lend his support to a campaign to ensure all artifacts discovered in Cork remain in the county and are not sent to the National Museum in Dublin.

THE parish of Allihies on the Beara Peninsula is steeped in history, with a mining heritage that goes back to the Bronze Age.

THE Kerry parish of Allihies, on the Beara peninsula, is to lose its resident priest, because of a shortage of clergy.

A shot of a crossroads in Allihies village, west Cork, made it to the cover of a book sold in the thousands of copies, and summarised perhaps the poorer, wetter, less-outward looking Ireland of the 1970s.

GARDAÍ have warned community groups to increase website security after pornographers hacked into a west Cork tourism site and inserted hardcore material on it.

HAVING just returned from a self-catering holiday in Allihies in west Cork I wish to make a few important points amid all the bashing of ‘rip-off’ Ireland.