Three public water schemes in Cork have been removed from a list of potentially dangerous supplies by the environment watchdog. This follows upgrade works by Irish Water.

The rarity of a large holding will always get a few pulses racing.

Carrickfern’s high-flying owners are selling up and heading home to Canada, hoping to take with them happy memories of times spent at their West Cork home, bought only a few years ago, reports Tommy Barker

BioAtlantis is licenced to mechanically harvest kelp around the Bantry Bay area. However, despite the fiscal and employment potential and despite assurances from the company, considerable local concern remains about the impact on wildlife, livelihoods and the environment, writes Noel Baker.

Despite the views of some of the locals of Adrigole, BioAtlantis has said that a proposed kelp farm for the West Cork village could very well create jobs and will not cost any jobs.

Tourism and local industry tell Claire O’Sullivan there will be huge damage caused by kelp harvesting in Bantry, but the harvesting company says otherwise.

Hidden away on the Beara peninsula is one of our last remaining rainforests, discovers Carl Dixon.

A controversial West Cork salmon farm application will be considered at a hearing in Bantry next month.

In the first of an occasional series journalist and cycling enthusiast, Dan MacCarthy, highlights some of the great cycling routes of Munster. This week, The Adrigole Circuit.

Footage sent into irishexaminer.com by John Eagle gives a stunning birds eye view of the waterfall in the Beara Peninsula, near Adrigole, Co. Cork.

Christopher McGlinchey took the biggest road win of his career yesterday on the opening stage of the Kerry Group Rás Mumhan.

Secret Garden is a family-owned stone cottage right next to a beautiful park on the Beara Peninsula, says Trish Dromey.

Hungry Hill Cottage looks out onto sloping wooded countryside and across Bantry Bay to Bere Island.

Cork Pride takes to the streets, and honours its heroes, in what should be among one of the great bank holiday spectacles of the weekend.

The Department of Agriculture has refused, under appeal, to publish a report it commissioned into how 230,000 farmed salmon escaped from cages in Bantry Bay during winter storms.

After months of questioning, Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney has confirmed that up to 230,000 farmed fish escaped from their cages into Bantry Bay during February’s storms.

Many people face being buried outside their own towns and villages as a graveyards run out of plots and there’s difficulty finding suitable alternative land in their localities.

THE AFTERMATH

A car, in which a man died in a road traffic accident at the weekend, had been taken without permission from a peninsula garda station.

IT MIGHT seem bit of paradox, but the best way to see Ireland’s raw, elemental natural beauty is to leave the place behind you, in your wake.

A 27-year-old man died after his car hit a ditch adjacent to a junction of a main road in East Cork early yesterday.

IN THE current economic climate, when jobs are scarce and precarious — I told myself earlier this year, “You must be prepared to shoot yourself out of your comfort zone like an arrow.

Kerry Group Rás Mumhan race director Tadhg Moriarty has warned riders with designs on making an impact on this year’s event to be “prepared for one of the hardest stages in the history of the race.”

Frightened families remain on alert as hill fires rage in West Cork and Kerry.

Assurances given by a state body over risks to wild salmon have not eased coastal communities’ fears over fish farms.

A county councillor who voluntarily took a lie detector test has spoken of his “huge relief” after the High Court quashed his conviction for assault.

Construction of a €10m Tesco outlet in Bantry, Co Cork, is expected to commence in the first quarter of 2013 after An Bord Pleanála gave permission for the 25,000 sq ft facility at the weekend.

Even now, a decade on, amid the jagged bays and bleak hillsides of the Beara peninsula, John Lock O’Sullivan is remembered.

A Garda staff association has expressed serious concern at how the force in Cork City is going to cope after it was left with just one 24-hour station for the whole city.

Folk artist Pepe Belmonte says music has helped him rebuild his life after a horrific bicycle accident, writes Carl Dixon

Up to 7,000 homes in the Beara Peninsula have been targeted by a voluntary group campaigning to prevent the expansion of Marine Harvest’s fish farms in Bantry Bay.

The future of a number of rural Garda stations in West Cork hangs in the balance as concern mounts over a second round of station closures.

American pianist David Syme has become a familiar figure on the Irish concert circuit in recent years.

LIFTING our heads above the drizzle and grey clouds becomes more challenging as our so-called summer progresses towards darker evenings, leaving us with the feeling summer has by-passed us altogether.

The Dunmanway Family Resource Centre (FRC) has never been busier — good news in many ways, not so good in others.

The electrics on board a boat, which caught fire and sank resulting in the deaths of three men, were in poor condition, unsafe, and potentially dangerous, the Marine Casualty Investigation Board has found.

A Government TD has asked the Department of Social Protection to review plans to cut hours at an “outreach” dole office which services a remote West Cork peninsula.

A Norwegian fish farming company is seeking to develop a closed container fish farm at buildings which were previously used for the processing of mussels in Bantry, West Cork.