Well, of course, we did have bears, but not on Bere Island. The island is named after the peninsula and is derived from the Spanish princess Bera who was married to the first king of Munster, Eogan More.

‘Lamentably deficient’ lighting doomed ships off our coast, but led to a proper system of lighthouses, writes Robert Hume.

Cork County Council has been slammed for not giving its seal of approval to pier improvements on Cape Clear for fear of disturbing nearby marine mammals.

LAST time around, in the mid-2000s, this was a swift property seller for its auctioneer, despite an island setting.

A young lobster fisherman who died off the coast of Cork was not wearing a lifejacket, it emerged today.