Birdwatching amid the sands and a silver sea

More than 2,500 rowers and up to 10,000 visitors will descend on Courtmacsherry this weekend as the West Cork village hosts the All Ireland Coastal Rowing Championships.

An estimated 10,000 coastal rowing enthusiasts and tourists will descend on a west Cork village next weekend for national championship finals.

THE crew of a trawler got an unwelcome catch yesterday when they scooped up an unstable World War II German mine, which was capable of sinking a large ship.

ON bank-holiday Monday, a local songwriter/musician phoned me to say that the click-click of the gorse pods popping in the heat were like maracas in a salsa band, and that kissing was finally out of season in west Cork.