A mere speck compared to the giant Bere Island beside it, and into one of whose fields it would easily fit, Roancarrigmore Island is of such diminutive size that its north/ south axis can be traversed in 30 seconds.

“A piece of social history,” was how Enda Kenny described what is perhaps one of the last accounts of the life of a lighthouse keeper.

The Lightkeeper: A memoir

WITH more than 155 years of marriage between them, eight couples walked down the aisle for the second time yesterday.