A number of West Cork county councillors are “keeping their counsel” in a continuing controversy over a planned new €3.5m fish farm in Bantry Bay.

A DISGRUNTLED Fianna Fáil senator hijacked Seanad business yesterday with a four-hour monologue to block legislation affecting his home town.

A WOMAN who lost both her parents when the oil tanker Betelgeuse blew up in Bantry harbour spoke publicly for the first time about her family’s grief yesterday — exactly 30 years after Ireland’s biggest peacetime maritime disaster.

A MAN who was born on the night his father died in Ireland’s worst maritime disaster will be among those attending a special commemorative event next month to mark the 30th anniversary of the tragedy.

THE planned dredging of Bantry’s inner harbour will pave the way for proposed developments costing up to €12 million in the world famous west Cork bay.