Councillors have demanded to know what happened to a report costing more than €100,000 which was supposed to provide a roadmap for turning a former fortress in Cork harbour into a major tourist attraction.

One of the more surprising facts about Whiddy Island in Bantry Bay is the size of its population in the 19th century.

Cork County Council warns it’s “a long way” from breaking even on money it has invested in Spike Island, even though the island has won a number of international tourism awards.

A man who dipped his toe in the adventure boat business after beating cancer hopes to create waves with his new Cork Harbour tour-boat venture linking the city to Cobh.

Volunteers who have been at the forefront in promoting a famed harbour fort as a major tourist attraction are seeking to have a say in its future.

A masterplan is to be prepared to boost tourism to one of the finest remaining examples of a classical coastal artillery fort in the world.

A gruelling new multi-sport adventure race in and around Cork Harbour which includes a kayak to Spike Island will be staged next month.

A Baltimore lifeboat rescue of 23 people from a steamship called Alondra, wrecked off the Kedges in West Cork in late 1916, is to feature in a special RNLI touring exhibition commemorating the centenary of World War One.

VIDEO:Eugne Power, Midleton from the Irish Great War society and Paul Lennox, Irish Military, Living History at the opening for the summer season of Camden Fort Meagher in Crosshaven over the weekend. Video by Eddie O’Hare. Irish Examiner

1 Push the boat out

CASTLEPOINT Court might be a modern enough build, but these three-storey houses owe something to the layout of Victorian or Georgian terraces — and the views from here are classic Cork— pure Crosshaven.

An intense battle unfolded yesterday in the waters below the historic Camden Fort Meagher in Crosshaven, Co. Cork.

Redheads have set their sights on smashing a biscuit-baking world record to prove they’re ginger nuts.

PAUL BRIERLEY has a cool head on him, for a man on a deadline.