Even small spots like Rossnagoose, on the edge of Skibbereen in West Cork by Abbeystrewery, can look out on wider global horizons than their elevated physical setting might normally allow.

GARDAÍ have arrested the driver of a stolen van involved in a hit and run crash in Co Cork which left an 80-year-old man in a serious condition in hospital.

Skibbereen in Co Cork is to be the focal point of Ireland's first National Famine Memorial Day this May.

HUNDREDS of people from all walks of life turned up to pay their last respects yesterday to a man who was the longest serving newspaper editor in the country.