A young couple are being hailed as heroes after saving the life of a student who was swept off a cliff face by a giant wave.

PHOTOGRAPHER John Carlos has always had a strong attachment to Ireland’s Western islands.

The State agency Bord Iascaigh Mhara (BIM) is an enthusiastic proponent of plans to build Europe’s largest salmon feed lot off the Aran Islands.

The body representing the views of a number of islanders living closest to a planned €50m organic salmon farm said it strongly objects to the plan.

Two photography books take different approaches to a similar subject, writes Carl Dixon

These three wind turbines were erected 10 years ago by the then Inis Meáin co-op as a means of developing sustainable energy on the Aran island.

A man who was hurt in an incident on board a ferry off the Aran islands at the weekend has died in hospital.

AS we cycled the small roads and tracks of the Aran Islands on the weekend before last, we enjoyed the best weather of the year.

An exhibition of rare photographs is offering a glimpse of life on the Blasket Islands and other parts of the west coast in the late 19th century.

I’M SITTING with my back to a stone wall on Inis Meáin — on Ireland’s western seaboard — watching islander Padraic McDonagh hand threshing rye in the time honoured way.

A new stamp celebrating the centenary of Irish language poet Máirtín O’Direáin’s birth was unveiled on his native Inis Mor today.

IT’S the stone walls patterning the landscape of the west of Ireland that leave a lasting first impression on many people visiting that part of the country.

Islanders off the north west coast of Ireland became the first people to vote on the Lisbon Treaty today, with the most remote said to be on the verge of rejecting it.

Animal rights activists will today celebrate a decision by exclusive department store Brown Thomas, Grafton St, to stop selling fur.

ALBERT HALL holds sway as 6-4 favourite over Motivator with totesport after eight horses were left in the Racing Post Trophy at Doncaster at yesterday’s 48-hour final declaration stage.