Jason Coniry last year gave thanks for surviving cancer by standing and paddling on a board for an arduous 13km from Monkstown to Cork as part of the Ocean to City Race.

Trish Dromey paints a picture of an artist’s residence on the Dingle Peninsula that is suffused with old charm.

Some years ago, Tom McDermott created a pond on his farm near Naas in Co Kildare. Up to 120 mallard roost there nowadays, attracted by the grain he puts out for them.

Many of Ireland’s most remote and beautiful tourist spots are to feature on Google Street View for the first time next year.

For generations the Irish Examiner has recorded the major events in the life of our nation, tracking its triumphs and disasters since the newspaper was first launched in 1841.

OUR local bay is less green this summer than any summer since the seasonal sea lettuce began a scourge a decade ago.

RECENTLY, for the umpteenth time, RTÉ again screened the David Lean epic, Ryan’s Daughter, filmed in the Dingle Peninsula, in 1969/’70.

BLASKET ISLAND VISITOR CENTRE WALK

THERE’S something special about landing on an island, whether you arrive by causeway or by bridge, by air, by ferry or other boat, by swimming, or swing by an island via a cable-car — and you’ve all those choices on offer for Ireland’s hundreds of islands.

IT used to be one of the life’s simple, taken-for-granted pleasures to stand outside in the blackness of night and just gaze at the star-speckled heavens.

Donal Hickey on protecting wildlife on the Blaskets.

THE first validated sightings of the world’s largest mammal have been made in Irish waters.

Members of Charles Haughey’s family will travel to the Dingle Regatta this weekend to continue the former Taoiseach’s close links with the boating event.

AMID growing concern about the safety of passengers travelling to Great Blasket island, pressure is being stepped up for the building of a long-awaited new pier in Dunquin.

FESTIVAL revellers nation-wide have been making the most of the brief bursts of sunshine — and there’s a lot more good weather to come, says one of the country’s best-known amateur forecasters.

THE National Salmon Commission yesterday called for a census of the seal population and said a cull may be necessary.

A SMALL number of angry fishermen are under suspicion for the unlawful killing of around 45 grey seals — a protected species under the 1976 Wildlife Act — in west Kerry.

BARBARISM is the only word to describe the slaughter of seals on the Blasket Islands.

A STUNNING glass gabled extension in a room that was probably once a cow shed is just one indication of the quality of the conversion here on Valentia.

Secret plans to build and launch a spaceship in Ireland were put to the Government by American astronauts, according to classified documents released today.