There is just something irresistible about a baguette, especially when it’s fresh out of the oven.

CORK South West election candidate John Kearney is determined to leave no ground uncovered in his quest to try and break down the bureaucracy “that prevents so many people from putting business ideas into action”.

CARMEL SOMERS, owner of the iconic Good Things café in Durrus developed her love and appreciation of good food in her childhood “while surrounded by lavish roast dinners, meticulous baking and too much butter”.

ONE and a half million euro is the asking price for this 26 acre farm at Ardnagroherey, near Church Cross, Skibbereen, and while it might make some farmers gasp, locals are a little blasé about elevated West Cork prices.