A Cork woman has expressed her delight at becoming the first ever person to swim from Mizen Head to the Fastnet Rock Lighthouse.

“I’d a grand total of under five hours sleep for the entire thing.”

If you really do want to get away from it all, the madding crowd and the beach scene bustle, then pack up your troubles, and go to Kit’s Cottage.

It’s the coastal route where a marketer’s dream meets the reality of world-class scenery. Tony Clayton-Lea sings the virtues of the Wild Atlantic Way.

Margaret Jennings hears about one man’s walk, just before his 60th birthday, from Mizen Head to Malin Head and what he learned about himself along the way.