Overlooking Roaringwaterbay in West Cork is a house on a hill. A couple of Scots pine trees stand by the house as if on guard. The setting is majestic — the island of East Skeam. The views are otherworldly, writes Dan MacCarthy.

Dan MacCarthy talks us through the Saltee Islands, named by Viking seafarers.

Dwellings cut into a rock face in a West Cork town have been unearthed, making it a possibly unique discovery.

WOULD that the marine biologists working on eradicating Sargassum, an invasive brown weed, at Lough Hyne in west Cork, found a way to eliminate the green weed plaguing shallow bays all over Ireland.

A TOWN decimated by the Great Famine will host the State’s first public national Famine commemoration event next week.