It could take at least another three years before Castletownbere receives a long-promised multi-million euro waste water treatment plant.

A small coastal community is mourning the death of a professor of creative writing and poetry who drowned after his dinghy capsized off the south-west coast.

Around a fifth of all rivers and streams in Co Cork may be polluted, according to a report released by the Environment Directorate of Cork County Council.

A picture postcard village of just 70 people has been declared the best kept place in Ireland.

A number of West Cork county councillors are “keeping their counsel” in a continuing controversy over a planned new €3.5m fish farm in Bantry Bay.

NEW weight restrictions on the country’s only cable car service will spell the end of sustainable farming on a scenic West Cork island.