Give the oars a quick rattle in the oarlocks and settle onto the wooden seat before you undertake the 45-minute row from Ross Castle, Killarney, Co Kerry, to a stronghold of early Irish monasticism.

A boom tourist season is expected in the Dingle Peninsula this year with increased visitor numbers especially from the US and Britain.

IN a recent letter regarding the Dripsey ambush (Irish Examiner, July 22), Brendan Cafferty links the names of Mrs Lindsay and Fr Shinnick as people who decided to stop an ambush. And he questions why only Mrs Lindsay (a Protestant) was shot.

The 90th anniversary of the death of the Irish patriot Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa is being commemorated in Dublin this afternoon.