THERE’S been an arty influence in the recent upgrades to the attractively-titled home Hawk’s View, at the cusp of Cork harbour, in an indented coastline area that could well be called Cork’s Bay Area.

A diver has been airlifted to hospital and a search is ongoing for a second as major search and rescue operation continues off the Cork coast this morning.

A post mortem examination will be carried out today on the body of a 10-year-old boy who drowned off the Cork coast.

Debt was at the top of the financial agenda for most of 2012, but there were some positive moments in the year too.

Shares in an exploration company are expected to soar after it announced an oil well discovered off the Cork coast could produce four times more than first thought.

The young son of a Coast Guard volunteer tragically killed last March became the first civilian to board the new €35m search and rescue helicopter launched in Goleen on Saturday.

The Russian government is refusing to pay a €155,000 bill for cleaning up an oil spill which threatened pollution of the Cork coast in 2009, despite admitting the leak was caused by one of its aircraft carriers.

Local reports suggest one of those missing from the trawler that went aground off the Cork coast was a young student from west Cork.

AN AIR and sea search is continuing off the Irish Coast for the missing 32ft yacht which was due to arrive into Cork six days ago but cannot be contacted.

More than 20 crew on board a racing yacht are recovering today following a dramatic rescue when it capsized off the Cork coast.

A search operation is underway off the west Cork coast today for a Polish father and son who have been missing since the weekend.

Three men caught off the Cork coast with almost two tonnes of cocaine will be sentenced today for their roles in an elaborate international drugs smuggling ring.

A yacht with 1.5 tonnes of cocaine on board was seized off the south-west coast today after authorities swooped on an international drugs trafficking ring.

FOR any young family, life in the countryside has many benefits, but Melanie Hann and Ian Humphreys have the best of both worlds.

Gardaí have been given more time to question one of the three men arrested over the massive cocaine haul recovered off the Cork coast earlier this week.

SONAR surveys of a sunken Spanish galleon off the Cork coast have revealed previously unseen images, which have so excited marine archaeologists they intend to carry out a major dive next summer.

AN American tycoon yesterday moved a step further in a 35-year legal battle to resolve a riddle of the deep - the sinking of the Lusitania.

A SIKH man who acquired the materials for a bomb that killed 329 people aboard an Air India flight in 1985 was sentenced to five years in prison yesterday.

A SIKH militant has admitted killing 329 people on board an Air India jet that was blown up 110 miles south of the Cork coast in 1985.

Five crew members have been airlifted to safety after their trawler, the Fiona Patricia, caught fire off the south coast.