Courtmacsherry Harbour Lifeboat has paid tribute to its crew for their life-saving efforts in the Fastnet disaster 40 years ago.

A community radio station on an island off the south-west coast is to trial EU-funded technology to allow it broadcast digitally-created Irish dialects in English and as Gaeilge.

A woman and her son from Cape Clear island have both received six month suspended jail sentences for the harassment of a fellow islander after revelations of a child born out of an affair.

A mother and her son from Cape Clear island off the coast of West Cork have spent a night in custody after being found guilty of harassing another islander over a period of almost two years in what a judge described as a long campaign of “sustained, deliberate, vulgar, and demeaning abuse”.

A West Cork ferry company has been chosen to transport the Dutch royal couple on a VIP river and harbour voyage in Cork City this week.

The threat of bacterial epidemics is something that threatens all countries, island or not.

Note to parents: allowing your child to eat an entire tube of Pringles before setting sail in ‘rough swells’ is never going to end well.

An island community off the south-west coast has come up with a novel way of raising money, while also educating visitors about its past.

More than 1.75m people can speak Irish — but fewer than 74,000 do so every day outside of the education system.

The volunteers of the Baltimore lifeboat have been very busy over the past four days.

If you've ever spent two weeks of your summer at an Irish College, there is no doubting you had a fantastic time.

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The President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins visits Cape Clear Island in West Cork

New Bay finished with a flourish to provide Andre Fabre with a fourth victory in the Prix du Jockey Club at Chantilly yesterday.

Andre Fabre is confident of a big run from New Bay as he steps up from a mile for the Prix du Jockey Club at Chantilly tomorrow.

Don Cossack has been announced as the highest-rated jumps horse of the 2014/15 season in the Anglo-Irish Jump Classification on a mark of 175.

A FEW years ago, the writer Sarah Webb was staying in a yurt on Cape Clear Island, off the west Cork coast.

Massive storm gates will be installed within weeks to protect an island community which was battered by storms last year.

Had a Happy Isthmus? West Cork’s Cape Clear island is in two solid masses, linked by a narrowed section of land known as an isthmus between its north and south harbours - and that’s where this Cummer home now up for sale is set.

Tooreen, Skibbereen, West Cork  €270,000

Bertie Le Belge sets the standard in tonight’s feature in Dundalk, the listed Star Appeal Stakes.

The Cape Clear Island International Storytelling Festival, which begins next week, is 20 years old.

Jim Bolger and Kevin Manning shared a double with classy two-year-olds Parish Boy and Lucida in Naas yesterday.

Order Of St George gets the nap to land a particularly interesting Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Maiden at Naas today.

Aidan O’Brien’s American import Darwin got his career back on track with victory in the feature Belgrave Stakes at Fairyhouse yesterday.

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Tom Mullins and Paul Townend, who teamed up to win with Elsie at Roscommon on Tuesday, again join forces at Cork tonight with Grand Partner and the six-year-old is fancied to land the nap in the Great Value Social Package Maiden Hurdle.

The Ger Lyons-Colin Keane combination has been good to us of late and it makes sense to go with them again at Leopardstown tonight.

Ger Lyons and Colin Keane have developed into a cracking combination and can provide us with a winning nap in the shape of Cape Wolfe in the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Median Auction Maiden at Fairyhouse tonight.

Richard Hannon’s Kool Kompany, so disappointing at Royal Ascot in the Coventry, streaked away with the Group 2 Gain Railway Stakes at the Curragh on Saturday.

If Roger Varian decides not to run Kingston Hill in this evening’s Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby at the Curragh then that will obviously rob the race of much of its interest.

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

Those of us who enjoyed a minor pay-day with Australia in last Saturday’s Epsom Derby can thank our lucky stars!

I refer to your well-illustrated article re the promotion of the ‘Wild Atlantic Way’ (Irish Examiner, February 28).

Rossbrin and Stouke, West Cork

MINKE whales galore off the Seven Heads, the Old Head of Kinsale and everywhere along the south coast.

CARRIGFADA HILL, WEST CORK

FARMHOUSE cheese producers will be given a lift tomorrow with the launch of a book illustrating the sector’s growth in recent years.

FASTNET Lighthouse, one of Ireland’s most remarkable structures, is normally left to the birds to wheel past, and for fish to shoal around.

Liosamona is a 120-year-old traditional home sitting on half an acre, Tommy Barker reports

WITH landscapes and dramatic views that stir the soul and comfort camping that feels like home, a trip to Cape Clear island off the coast of west Cork is escapism at its finest.

SHANGHAI to Sherkin, a contrast that would make one’s head spin.