Today’s general election may well signal stormy weather ahead for incumbent TDs, but today’s weather warning has sparked concerns that wind and rain could dampen voter turnout.

It is hard to believe today but the former island of Ringarogy in West Cork was once home to around 800 people.

Ruth Kirkpatrick will never forget her first journey to the island’s storytelling festival, which begins its 25th edition today, writes Richard Fitzpatrick.

I stopped going to yoga classes after my grandmother died in January.

There's been a recent history of hospitality at The Cove, by the Beacon road in West Cork’s Baltimore, exemplified by this home/B&B called the Slipway – but hospitality wasn’t always the flavour of the day.

The Government has announced that Cork is to receive an investment of €290 million to deliver fibre broadband to almost 75,000 homes in the Intervention Area (IA).

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”.

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

Crookhaven's Monksfield dips a toe, and a pier, in the coastal property market

Baltimore RNLI carried out a medical evacuation last night from Sherkin Island off the coast of Baltimore, West Cork.

This 65-acre island is the smallest of the three Calves of East, Middle, and West.

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.

If islanders on Cape Clear fail to recruit two teachers, their 150-year-old school may have to close. That would have serious implications for the community’s future.

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

In advance of the Crosstown Drift event, Eoghan O’Sullivan asked some of the participating authors about what makes Cork a special place for them.

Offshore racing in Ireland is witnessing a significant increase both of participants but also as a course area if 2018 is used as a measure.

Audrey has been sorting out Cork people for ages

An emergency meeting has been sought aimed at staving off the closure of an important arts course which generates around €150,000 per year for the economy of an island off the south-west coast.

“One of the things I love about this job is that it’s not just professional artists that we’re working with, but entire communities.”

Overlooking Roaringwaterbay in West Cork is a house on a hill. A couple of Scots pine trees stand by the house as if on guard. The setting is majestic — the island of East Skeam. The views are otherworldly, writes Dan MacCarthy.

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

Residents of one of the country’s largest inhabited islands have warned of an emerging crisis after power cuts effectively crippled their multi-million euro harbour storm gates.

Compared with the west coast, the south coast has a mere smattering of islands. From Hook Head in Co Wexford to Cape Clear in Co Cork, there are a few clusters of islands at Glandore, Cork Harbour, and Kilmore Quay, writes Dan MacCarthy. 

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When it comes to boats and sailing, West Cork is a mecca of sorts depending on outlook and interests.

West Cork is preparing to be the centre of attention in the sailing world over the coming week, as thousands of sailors from around the world and closer to home head for the Fastnet Rock.

Fancy going to Paris or Spain for the weekend? They might be closer than you think.