An eccentric little tram which ran for decades between the West Cork towns of Schull and Skibbereen is to be immortalised as part of a television series on Ireland’s trains.

The people, the stories and the quirky traditions surrounding the trains of West Cork are to be immortalised in a TV series that begins this week.

A NEW documentary is set to give a unique and often funny insight into the monastic life in one of Ireland’s best-known abbeys.