Garret Island is impenetrable under a canopy of trees growing at every conceivable angle.

Writer and performer Aidan Dooley has reworked his show Our Last Chieftain: O’Sullivan Beara by tapping into what made Tom Crean: Antarctic Explorer so successful.

Anyone looking for an Olympic gold medal in canoe or kayak wild-river slalom would do well to cast an eye over this Kealkil, West Cork bungalow — it looks over an historic castle, river rapids and dramatic, pulse-quickening falls.

TO mark the 400th anniversary of the exodus of the O’Sullivan Beare clan from West Cork to Leitrim, a hardcore of 40 people will walk the entire route taking them through 11 counties.