Voting on our off-shore islands could be badly hit by storms.

The Government is aiming to put together a new national policy for the development of the islands around Ireland.

Corkbeg Island near the mouth of Cork Harbour is today an industrial location with Ireland’s only oil refinery whose silver cylinders dominate the low-lying island like giant mugs, writes Dan McCarthy.

IF you happen to be contemplating a global circumnavigation by yacht, there are not many better places to consider the fascinating journey than Foynes Island, Co Limerick.

Comhar na nOileán Teo is to benefit from €70,000 worth of Governmental funding.

How a scholar in Greek language and literature who studied at Trinity College Dublin became involved in an infamous incident in the notorious African slave trade is in some ways the conundrum of western civilisation.

This week we leave Ireland’s rocky shores and expand this series to take in global islands where Irish people have had a strong influence, whether malign or benign, writes Dan MacCarthy.

It is an odd name for an island as though nothing of its own character is sufficient to define it. Only by reference to its fellows, and vice versa, does it gain identity. Calf Middle (Lao Mheán), flanked by Calf West and Calf East, lies in Roaringwater Bay, West Cork, three of the glorious Carbery’s Hundred Isles of poetic fame.

Dan McCarthy learns more about the cable car on Crow Island.

Michelle Walshe recalls the three months she spent living in the early monastic site on Skellig Michael

Though Inishbiggle may sound like the inspiration for the schoolboy adventures of Captain WE Johns, namely the Biggles series about a World War II pilot, it is in fact a corruption of the Irish Bigil whose origin is obscure.

Here is a perfect rejoinder to anyone who is beginning to test your patience: “Unless a proposition is necessary, it is meaningless and approaching meaning zero.”

One of the most notorious murder trials to occur in Ireland transfixed Dublin society in 1852. The murder took place on Ireland’s Eye in Co Dublin — in many ways the Toscan du Plantier death of its day which riveted public attention.

Funding of €1m has been announced for upgrades on our islands, including five off the Co Cork coast.

Dan MacCarthy visits Sherky Island off the coast of Co Kerry.

Dan MacCarthy talks us through the Saltee Islands, named by Viking seafarers.

A senior HSE primary care facilitator, involved in the first review of healthcare services on Irish islands, has said their ageing populations are a “particular challenge” that will have to be addressed.

An oasis of peace on a Greek island proved the perfect environment for Claire Droney to practice her writing skills tutored by a Man Booker author. 

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China’s land reclamation in the South China Sea is out of step with international rules, US defence secretary Ash Carter told a security conference in Singapore.