Denis Lehane Stephen Shorten is a bright, articulate and hardworking farmer. He lives and farms in Enniskeane, Co Cork.

Coláiste Choilm Ballincollig and Hamilton High School Bandon have secured their places in the quarter-finals of the Corn Uí Mhuirí with a round to spare.

As a participant in a Forestry Knowledge Transfer Group, I have discovered the merits of co-operation amongst 20 forestry farmers prepared to share their personal experiences about forestry growing with others.

A substantial holding in West Cork has just been put on the market in West Cork, for sale with Clonakilty-based auctioneer Henry O’Leary.

Coming up for public auction on Thursday, October 24, at the Munster Arms Hotel in Bandon is a 51-acre residential farm in West Cork, close to the village of Enniskeane.

At a meeting in County Hall, many of the 55 councillors gave examples of problems in their various areas. They have decided to write a “strongly-worded” email to John Halligan, junior minister at the Department of Education & Skills, urging him to get more and bigger buses to solve the issue.

A man who tried to hide cocaine in his underwear when gardaí searched his house under warrant has received a 10-month jail sentence.

Setting off from Drishane House, Peter Dowdall explores West Cork’s very own Gardens of Eden.

A fascinating documentary features 12 modern-day volunteers who, reality TV-style, trained to emulate the men in the renowned flying columns of Ireland’s 1920s War of Independence.

A pulsating Cork PIFC opening round tie went right to the wire before Bantry Blues edged St Vincent’s at Enniskeane last Saturday evening.

Rapidly growing satellite town Carrigaline could be divided into two local election areas.

A 57-year-old man dozed off on his couch with his arm in a sling but woke to a masked raider striking him with force with a heavy yard brush.

A criminal who was trying to get into the “headstone business” has been jailed for 18 months after causing criminal damage to cemetery headstones in what the judge described as “an unbelievable mean, despicable crime”.

West Cork home blends old and new, a traditional cottage with modern two-storey add-ons, says Tommy Barker.

A Catholic priest shot and killed Patrick Pearse and two other Irish republicans in west Cork during the Civil War, leading anti-Treaty IRA members later claimed, writes Niall Murray.

Two farmers have died in separate incidents as they worked to repair roofs damaged in recent storms.

It may not have looked it yesterday as people across West Cork surveyed the fallout from Hurricane Ophelia, but the area might have escaped the worst of the damage.

West Cork villagers are being urged to lodge their objections to a proposed solar panel farm with a local lobby group which has launched a determined campaign against the initiative.

A public meeting is to be held in a West Cork village tonight over controversial proposals to site between 16 and 18 acres of solar panels near a number of homes on the outskirts of the village.

Tommy Barker reports on a superb west Cork family home near Enniskeane with ‘rooms’ for horses

Orla Cronin got her first Cork senior camogie call-up in 2012 at the tender age of 16. 

A legendary warrior, also one of Celtic mythology’s greatest romantic figures, is buried near the graves of IRA fighters in a little-known cemetery in West Cork, a book to be published this month reveals.

SET out along the road from West Cork’s inland twin towns of Enniskeane/Ballineen, on the route to coastal Clonakilty, is this 15-year-old detached build, on a level 1.5 acres plot: large enough for a pony, foal or donkey, say its selling agents.

Gardaí have detected 191 people speeding today, which is National Slow Down Day.

There is a sort of city sophistication to the finishes at this rural-set, architecturally-designed over-basement home, 20 minutes from Ballincollig and a few miles north of Enniskeane.

Commuters and tourists still face delays and detours in West Cork as the county council battles to repair serious damage inflicted in the region during last winter’s storms.

The Guards is a new series on RTÉ Two looking at life behind the scenes for gardaí in Dublin. It airs at 9.55pm on Tuesday night.

A man who sold a car for scrap for €500 has since spotted it for sale for €1,500, with 300,000 fewer kilometres on the clock.

Collectors have plenty to choose from this May Bank Holiday weekend.

Des O’Sullivan looks ahead to some unique sales with varied lots on offer, including art and elegant furniture.

An Irish film based on a story by a West Cork-born writer about young male suicide in modern Ireland, is broadcast on RTÉ tonight.

With 20 titles, St Brendan’s College’s position at the top of the Corn Uí Mhuirí roll of honour is assured for a while yet.