From Eyeries, on West Cork’s Beara Peninsula, the producers of Milleens Dote cheese are thrilled to have won a two-star 2019 Great Taste award, as well as a one-star for their Dunnes Stores Céad cheese.

The glitterati of young movie makers will be out in strength this week as Munster schools make up almost half of the 24 in the running for Ireland’s junior Oscars.

Just coming up on 10 years old, in great shape and superbly finished is this Allihies 2,800 sq ft home — painted white, and that’s really atypical of the West Cork village and its colourful hinterland.

A picture postcard village of just 70 people has been declared the best kept place in Ireland.

THAT first meeting went very well.