One of the country's biggest music festivals has created a new area made entirely out of wood and other natural materials.

Here's your summer events guide for the month of August, including all things music, arts and ents.

The sun was setting over Dun Laoghaire harbour as jazz sorcerer Kamasi Washington embarked on his umpteenth dazzling solo of the evening.

Mary Black plays live in the open-air courtyard of the 2,500-acre Curraghmore Estate in Portlaw, Waterford, on Saturday, September 19, as part of the Comeraghs Wild Festival. Tickets are €27.50 and on sale from www.comeraghswild.com 

The country’s first canyoning expedition through a waterfall is one of the highlights of a festival taking place this month against the backdrop of a stunning mountain range.

PORTLAW WITH CURRAGHMORE ESTATE, COUNTY WATERFORD

I’LL never forget the first time I saw Coumshingaun.

Some of the country’s most historic houses and gardens will throw open their gates to the public as part of a new garden festival taking place next month.

TWO kayakers lost their lives at a dangerous weir where lifesaving equipment had been damaged by vandals and was not replaced, a marine casualty investigation revealed.

A river weir in which two men drowned on a canoeing trip is impassable, accident investigators found.

IT’S a pity that neither President Barack Obama nor Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II will be on southern Irish soil until next month.