THERE’S a touch of the Rip Van Winkles about the re-emergence of a West Cork guesthouse back in the bed-nights business after dozy decades of dereliction and being used to store old silage wrap.

THE singer Michelle Shocked had a hit single with her song Anchorage, Alaska - however, this house of note Anchorage Ahakista is a warmer option.

A CHURCH that has been through one conversion process is about to face another change.