Dan MacCarthy discusses Carthy’s Islands in Roaringwater Bay

The ravens have built their nest at their traditional site at Coomalacha, on the Seven Heads in West Cork, as they do every year. I’m glad to hear this, writes Damien Enright.

Traveller families left homeless by recent storms have rejected offers of replacement caravans because some of the homes were substandard.

Travellers living on halting sites are in need sturdier cabin-like homes, not caravans, to protect from increasingly severe storms, a local authority meeting heard last night.

Storm-affected Travellers have been told that any family which refuses all reasonable offers of replacement accommodation will have their emergency housing payments stopped.

Even small spots like Rossnagoose, on the edge of Skibbereen in West Cork by Abbeystrewery, can look out on wider global horizons than their elevated physical setting might normally allow.

It’s a freezing cold but starkly beautiful day here in the SouthWest, while it’s mucky, snowy, or slushy in the North-West, North and East; how fortunate we are. 

FAI chief executive John Delaney is a man of his word.

It was a once-in-a-lifetime event — we hope — Hurricane Ophelia, roaring across Ireland on October 16, and it wasn’t until five days later that we could enter our local woods with any degree of safety, writes Damien Enright

Fishermen dealing in crab, lobster, and shrimp have appealed for financial assistance. They claim their autumn and winter catch prospects have been devastated by Hurricane Ophelia.

Households and businesses struggling with power outages following Hurricane Ophelia and Storm Brian have been given extra time to meet the online Pay and File deadline by Revenue.

HUMANITY passed a milestone in recent decades. For the first time, more of us live in cities than in rural settings. 

Latest: ESB Networks has continued to restore electricity supply following Hurricane Ophelia but approximately 19,500 customers remain without supply, a number of which are due to Storm Brian.

The Horrors live at  Tivoli, Dublin - 5/5

The sale of this home will be music to the ears of dozens of budding musicians — it is forming part of a very generous bequest that could be worth €2m, to the benefit of UCC students, and to UCC’s music department in particular. 

Met Éireann is predicting that “in general”, the winds which Storm Brian brings to the country this weekend will not be as severe as Ophelia.

The weather thrown at us by the latest ‘big storm’ may not have set records but the help of neighbours was still very heartening, writes Margaret Hickey.

Tributes have been paid to Ireland's three Hurricane Ophelia victims as the family of Michael Pyke attended his funeral today.

A customer notice from a rural pharmacy has become a social media sensation after the owners of the chemists placed a hilarious do not disturb type sign on the shop door during the worst of Hurricane Ophelia.

Irish insurers have paid out €1.3bn to policyholders as a direct result of storms and flooding over the past 10 years, the industry’s representative body has said.

It may not have looked it yesterday as people across West Cork surveyed the fallout from Hurricane Ophelia, but the area might have escaped the worst of the damage.

When the Cork City players cross the white line at Turner’s Cross tonight, they will see the effects of Hurricane Ophelia and feel the hand of history on their shoulders.

The futures of Derek McGrath and Stephen Rochford should be considerably clearer by the end of next week.

Update - 2.55pm:A man has died in Cahir, Co Tipperary while attempting to move debris brought down by Hurricane Ophelia.

NUI Galway will be closed tomorrow due to the effects of Hurricane Ophelia.

As Hurricane Ophelia approaches, the weather is turning wilder.

And so the wait goes on until at least Monday, when Cork City will have the chance to reprise their last title success, in 2005, by beating Derry City - or, this time, even just drawing with them - at Turner’s Cross.

Okay, so this is getting kinda ridiculous. Not concerning, or interesting, just ridiculous.

A Met Éireann weather warning is in effect as Hurricane Ophelia heads towards Ireland.

Hurricane Ophelia picked up strength as it closed in on North Carolina today, but many in the storm's path had shrugged off the threat of wind and flooding rain and ignored pleas to evacuate.

Hurricane Ophelia lingered in the Atlantic early today but meteorologists said the storm could take a sharp turn toward the Carolinas, where a hurricane-watch was in effect.