Damien Enright visited an EFDA project in Ethiopia, and saw it was doing genuine good work

Built in 2009, this stylish apartment has modern décor and is in a great location, with plans for a craft distillery, too, writes Trish Dromey.

You’re set back just a bit from the best of the views to be had over Inchydoney Beach (often rated as one of Ireland’s most popular) at this seaside home up for sale, but while it just lacks beach and ocean views, the upside is a bit more tranquillity, and one of the larger sites to be had in the West Cork coastal setting, an hour from city and airport.

Built to an exceptional standard in 2009 in Clonakilty’s Waterfront development, apartment 3 in the niche residential block in the top tourism town has had a further high-end makeover and refit in time for its refloating for sale.

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Saddle up to get a view of our magnificent landscape. There is simply no better way to appreciate our country says Dan MacCarthy

Trish Dromey dips a toe in a hidden cove and coastal offer with planning for a bigger three bed build.

Irish Water has received plenty of bad press but in one West Cork town it has offered one piece of good news: The ‘Clon Pong’ is gone.

I arrive back from the Canary Islands, with a brief stop-over in London, and have messages on my telephone which make me wonder if there is more exotic wildlife to be seen in West Cork than in many far-flung places.

BIG site, small house, and the very best of beach views are all in the mix here in West Cork’s South Ring, by Clonakilty Bay.

A group of West Cork tree-lovers with an eye to the future are ensuring their descendants will one day experience the beauty of an Irish oak forest.

Work on a €12.1m plan to erect flood defences in a Co Cork town should get under way next autumn, according to OPW Minister Simon Harris.

Clonakilty reopened for business just hours after floods again ran through the centre of the town.

Cork County Council has appointed consultants to compile a database of heritage sites under its control to see which of them could be exploited for tourism purposes.

Environmental scientists have been unable to pinpoint the source of a nauseating smell plaguing a top tourist town in West Cork.

BUTLERSTOWN-SHANAGH (Seven Heads Walk, West Cork)

Work on flood prevention for at an-risk tourist town in West Cork could commence in mid-2015.

A “GARBLED message” just before 6am on a Sunday and lasting just over three minutes alerted Valentia marine rescue centre to the tragedy of the fishing vessel Tit Bonhomme.

Dunny Cove property by beach slipway, Tommy Barker reports

In Co. Cork, a lifeboat towed a yacht with three people on board to safety this afternoon after it ran into difficulties in poor weather conditions.

IT may not have been Dylan Thomas’ “mussel pooled and the heron Priested shore” but the view from the windows at Deasy’s Seafood Bar in Ring, outside Clonakilty, Co Cork, is as captivating as I imagine the shoreline that shaped the Welshman’s sublime Poem in October must have been.

THERE’LL be plenty of puffing activity outside this unusual west Cork property offering today — it is placed on the last mile back into Clonakilty on the town’s inaugural Waterfront Running Marathon.

THEY are known as the One-o-clock Nudes – bare-arsed aficionados of nude bathing who descend on Irish beaches during the summer to let it all hang out.

MINISTER for the Environment John Gormley is expected to shortly release funds for the removal of up to 3,000 tonnes of sea lettuce, which has blighted parts of the west Cork coast.

THE sea is just across the road, and the beckoning bay is great for boating — welcome to Ballycusheen.

NOW that the tax relief has run out, many of the perfectly placed apartments at Inchydoney, Co Cork, are coming on the market.

A land and sea search is continuing in west Cork this morning amid fears that a surfer may be missing in the area.

SLIGHTLY off the beaten track, but without compromising on the views, is Sea Haven, a 1,200 sq ft detached home on an acre located six miles from Clonakilty in west Cork.

IS it to be another invasion of egrets, this time the cattle egret, a small, white heron, not quite as pretty as its cousin, the now familiar little egret, but pretty nonetheless?

BACK in Ballydehob, CCM’s Jim O’Brien is selling a 38-acre non-residential farm in a scenic location.

ULTRA exclusive is the sales pitch given to Desert Heights, a scheme of just five bungalows on a height overlooking Clonakilty Bay, in West Cork with bay views.

FOR one family the mourning can begin — for another family, the agonising wait goes on.

THE proposed redevelopment of a key waterfront site in inner Clonakilty Bay has been delayed pending a decision from the Environmental Protection Agency on whether an environmental impact study (EIS) is required.

VIEWS, like beauty, can be in the eye of the beholder but the views from this Inchydoney island house are a sight to behold.

The Subaru WRC’s of Kenny McKinstry and Michael Barrable are dominating the early stages in the

IT is a sure sign there'll be strong sales interest in a property when the vendors have had would-be buyers making cold calls to their door, asking if there's a chance the house might be sold to them.