The 66-year-old British man who died when his 5.5m yacht capsized off the West Cork coast kept a holiday home and mooring in the wider Schull area.

THE idea of a fully functioning, properly conceived and affordable electric car is one which will be fully endorsed from this quarter when we finally get one.

SAYING he was “perhaps driven to trying to survive in the magnificent peninsula of Dunmanus Bay”, a judge suspended the sentence of a man who turned to growing cannabis on a massive scale after his equestrian centre went out of business.

THERE’S good value in west Cork at the moment, as the market rectifies itself.

STEEP, wooded and with no farm buildings to speak of, this 84-acre west Cork farm at Kilcomane, Dunbeacon, Durrus, is an international level hobby farm, which probably falls outside the radar of agriculturalists.

EXCEPT that he’s too proper to say it, estate agent Charles McCarthy might bill the €1.5 million price tag on this waterfronting west Cork home “a drop in the ocean compared to what’s being dropped in the ocean nearby.”