A MODEST cottage in Courtmacsherry not only has a superb vantage point over the bay, but it was once the home of the Antarctic explorer Patrick Keohane.

THE captain of a German sail training ship battered by a ferocious storm praised his rookie crew last night after their vessel limped into Cork harbour.

Australian police today filed a terror charge against a high school teacher who allegedly stockpiled bombs at his home in the east coast city of Brisbane.

A GROUP of Irish antarctic exploration enthusiasts yesterday spent a total of €38,000 on historic items which belonged to Cork- born Polar explorer Patrick Keohane.