Residents and businesses in Bandon have been warned there’s "no gain without pain" as they face major upheaval with work due to start early next year on three schemes.

Birdwatching amid the sands and a silver sea

OUR trailhead is Howe Strand, where a few cars can park but space is limited. The beach looks out onto Courtmacsherry Bay and beyond it, the open ocean. Westward are the Seven Heads, and to the east, the Old Head of Kinsale.

A man has died in a road crash in Co Cork this morning.

IT might look old, but it’s a period home copy – in fact, it is possibly better than the original.

TWO men were in the custody of Bandon gardaí last night after the seizure of €200,000 worth of heroin in the town.

REBRANDED as the gateway to West Cork, Bandon has been a garrison town for most of its history, which dates to 1604.

A NEW listing with David Busteed of Sherry FitzGerald Brennan Busteed, is no 8 Castlewoods, a smart, four-bed on the outskirts of Bandon town.

COVERED in blossoming wisteria, St Anne’s is just off the main Clonakilty Road in Bandon town, but you’d never think it.

INITIALLY, families trading up the property ladder wanted more room for the children. Now, in affluent Ireland, the children in question want land for their ponies.

By Tommy Barker

JEFF SCOTT, who is married to Carrignavar athlete Michelle Murphy, is a regular Yuletide visitor to Cork and yesterday he highlighted his visit with an all-the-way victory in the Belgooly Festive Four Mile Road Race while another visitor, Canadian international Sarah Dupre, married to Leevale athlete, David Healy, reclaimed the women’s title.