Courcey Rovers were dealt a massive financial blow by the Covid-19 shutdown but are caring for the parish's most vulnerable.

Three fin whales, each bigger than the Courtmacsherry whale-watch boat, were spotted off the Old Head of Kinsale last week.

A diver rescued by a Naval Service ship after getting into difficulties at the site of the Lusitania wreck was later airlifted to hospital, reportedly suffering from decompression sickness, otherwise known as 'the bends'.

For bookworms and classic movie buffs, the notion of a London park will forever conjure up images of Mary Poppins with the Banks children in tow.

Ever wondered what it would be like to move lock, stock and barrel into a tiny home, like the ones on Netflix’s Tiny House Nation?

The husband and wife were on a short break in Cork last week and were travelling with their Féileacáin teddy bear, which was part of a memory box for their daughter, who was stillborn almost two years ago.

The American owner of the wreck of the Lusitania has gifted it to a local group in Cork and hopes his bequest will help them create a “living museum” to the tragedy.

It seems our ‘domestic’, but still wild, heron, Ron, has ‘gone west’ and we find we miss him, scanning skies, balconies, rooftops and canopies of trees in our local wood (those still standing after the multiple storms) for his familiar, elegant profile cut out of the heavenly blue.

With the kids at school on Monday, Jessica and I went walkabout to a spot intriguingly called Taylors Mistake. Apparently, a ship captain with a bottle of rum too many ran aground around Godley’s Head looking for Summer Bay.

An appeal against planning permission being granted for a new caravan park near the Old Head of Kinsale has been thrown out for not being made by a “bona fide” person.

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‘Lamentably deficient’ lighting doomed ships off our coast, but led to a proper system of lighthouses, writes Robert Hume.

A body has been recovered after a car went over a cliff in Cork yesterday evening.

Catch up on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com this morning.

A search is underway in Cork after gardaí alerted marine rescue services that a car had gone over a cliff.

The main telegraph machine from the wreck of the Lusitania has been recovered from the seabed.

Six people have been rescued from a boat in West Cork this afternoon.

The descendant of a survivor of the Lusitania tragedy has praised a community for honouring everyone on board the doomed liner through a stunning bronze sculpture and memorial garden.

The Lusitania tragedy has been commemorated in a stunning 20m bronze sculpture which will be unveiled as part of a new memorial garden on the Cork coast.

German airmen who crashed in Ireland during the Second World War and survived were interned here, becoming objects of great curiosity among local people who encountered them, as Ryle Dwyer discovers.     

This bungalow in a holiday-home development could also prove to become a viable long-term home, writes Tommy Barker.

A dead dolphin at Broadstrand, Seven Heads, West Cork, carried in on a high tide and now above the tideline, so not likely to be carried out again. It’s a big animal, rotund and heavy. It’s on a popular walking route: what’s to be done?

Old Head home seeks new hands, says Tommy Barker.  

It is no longer possible to shield children from the world, according to Michael Morpurgo who tells Colette Sheridan of his journey from schoolteacher to best-selling author and how his stories inform as well as entertain. 

Tommy Barker joins an expert woodturner in a bid to discover what could have been if he had not thrown out his rusty old lathe.

Last week, an old friend of mine (not in the sense of seriously elderly, although he’s no stripling), Mr Kevin Hanly, a man with a great eye for the workings of nature and natural things, was abroad alone on his boat in Courtmacsherry Bay in West Cork, (something a seriously old person would not do), fishing for bass, writes Damien Enright

Around 100 of the mammoth mammals sighted off Irish waters each year, but true number may be higher

There were many poignant moments on a day of the Lusitania commemoration, but two audibly struck a chord with the thousands who attended it.

Sharks, paramedics, and the Lusitania - a varied mix of TV tips tonight.

THE 20th century’s ill-fated ocean liners keep emerging as fragments on the antiques market. In the last few decades serious collectors have amassed some rare objects from infamous shipwrecks.

Irish commercial diving expert Eoin McGarry has dived on the wreck of the RMS Lusitania more than anyone else alive. Since his first dive on the wreck over 15 years ago, he has spent more time than anyone else in and around its deck, in pitch darkness 90m below the waves some 18km off the Old Head of Kinsale in Cork.

Historian Gabriel Doherty outlines impacts of the Lusitania sinking, due to be analysed at a seminar in UCC; the following pages feature articles by other conference speakers

An academic conference focusing on the sinking of the Lusitania and the general sea war from 1914 to 1918 is to be hosted by University College Cork next week.

A dog stranded on cliffs was one of three weekend callouts dealt with successfully by a West Cork lifeboat in 24 hours.

A president, three ambassadors and around 5,300 cruise line passengers will come to Cobh on May 7 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Lusitania.

More than a century of service to the seafaring community by the Coast Guard radio station in Valentia, Co Kerry, has been marked by the erection of a plaque to honour all who worked there.

Rail commuters standing on platforms at Kent Station, Cork, could have been forgiven for thinking they’d gone back in time yesterday as several people milled around in period dress.

A father of one who died in a fishing accident last year was hit on the head by machinery as a net was hoisted, an inquiry has found.

A coastal Cork mill building which literally has come back from the dead has a poignant anniversary next year— it’s by an on-shore spot close to the 1915 sinking of a British tanker.

AMONG the unusual visitors brought by fine weather to our shores is the Clouded Yellow butterfly.

OUR trailhead is Howe Strand, where a few cars can park but space is limited. The beach looks out onto Courtmacsherry Bay and beyond it, the open ocean. Westward are the Seven Heads, and to the east, the Old Head of Kinsale.

A re-enactment of the inquest into the sinking of the Lusitania, featuring descendents of the jury, will be one of a number of events planned to commemorate next year’s 100th anniversary of the sinking of the liner.

SIGHTS not to be missed this week: firstly, the Water Crowfoot in your local river.

An online archive of documentary film spanning more than a century is yielding up new glimpses into Irish history – including the rediscovery of film shot in Cobh, Co Cork of the aftermath of the 1915 Lusitania disaster.