THE Wild Atlantic Way tourism initiative is obviously a success, well planned and executed, paying dividends to the geographically marginalised communities through which it passes, writes Damien Enright.

The Co Cork coastline may not have been as ravaged by the recent storms as their counterparts in Kerry and Clare, but damage was still done and repairs are required, writes Noel Baker as our three-part series on how the the storms changed Ireland continues.

THEY are known as the One-o-clock Nudes – bare-arsed aficionados of nude bathing who descend on Irish beaches during the summer to let it all hang out.

AS I won’t be able to personally wish you all bon voyage, may I – through the letters page of the Irish Examiner – say goodbye and best of luck to the hundreds of thousands of people who are about to blaze Ireland’s latest emigrant trail.