For anyone worrying about the future, here’s one possible crumb of comfort. In one vision of a West Cork town 100 years in the future, Skibbereen’s West Cork Hotel has an outdoor swimming pool.

A couple have had their Christmas "ruined" after a hotel cancelled their New Year’s Eve wedding renewal days before the event.

Hands off rural communities — that’s the message the West Cork Communities Alliance wants to deliver to Government.

TEN UCC students will be honoured for their sporting achievements tonight as the Cork university celebrates one of their most successful sporting years in modern times.