It’s Saturday and the sun is shining. What more could you want? A good beach bar, that’s what. Travel writer Pól Ó Conghaile picks 10 of the best from around the country

HAS the turn happened? Are land prices on the way up in some areas? That’s the question being asked by some people this week, following another successful land sale in the Kinsale area.

CORK County Council has granted permission for a 96-berth marina in Kinsale and a controversial quarry in Carrigtwohill. However, objections have been made to An Board Pleanála about hundreds of houses earmarked for Bandon.