Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) has given a commitment that students will be able to finish an art degree on a West Cork island despite uncertainty over funding for technical support.

Specialist divers were brought in to repair a broken pipe which supplies water to islanders living off the south-west coast.

A Cork internet TV broadcaster is on a race against time to raise €12,000 in 12 days to host a novel island festival.

IT’S all about attitude and it’s never too late.

ONE of Ireland’s most southerly communities has become the Island of Paint and Scholars after the first graduates of an offshore degree programme earned their scrolls yesterday.

FORGET UCC, CIT or even Trinity — in what is being hailed as a major education breakthrough, a small island off the West Cork coast is now the venue for a third-level degree.

ISOLATED island children had their say in the selection of a logo for Ireland’s forthcoming term of the EU Presidency.