Glengarriff will reverberate to the melody of the uilleann pipes for four days this week as the whole town becomes a trad music venue for the annual Jim Dowling Uilleann Pipes and Trad Festival.

Carrickfern’s high-flying owners are selling up and heading home to Canada, hoping to take with them happy memories of times spent at their West Cork home, bought only a few years ago, reports Tommy Barker

DON’T use the weather as an excuse. Get out there, says Donal Hickey. 

Seven parks including Stephen's Green in Dublin and Garinish Island in Cork have been given Green Flag awards for 2017.

The managing director and co-owner of the four-star Parknasilla Hotel in Kerry has forecast that revenues will likely be up as much as 6% this year.

Take a stroll through Ireland’s majestic gardens with Donal Hickey.

Kya deLongchamps encourages a wide-eyed spring ramble around three of the many heritage gardens of Ireland.

Donal Hickey takes a look back at the great days 2016 gave us for the outdoors.

Operating profits at one of the country’s best known four-star hotels, Parknasilla in Co Kerry, quadrupled to €452,543 in 2014.

Tommy Barker finds that New England style, sea views and a gourmet food shop next door make for a great blend on Bantry’s Golden Mile.

Two projects in Co Kerry and one in Co Cork are among seven nationally to benefit from funding of €350,000 being provided by the Department of Arts, Heritage, and the Gaeltacht.

Tommy Barker reports on a sea-front contemporary, five-bedroomed residence in glorious Glengarriff.

Revenues at one of the best known four-star hotels in the country, the Parknasilla Resort in Co Kerry last year increased 18% to €5m in “a terrific year” for the business.

Balllickey, West Cork

A major extension of facilities at a pharmaceutical plant near Cork harbour is the subject of a recent planning application.

Work should be clear to proceed on a redevelopment of the Dell computer plant in Limerick into a €300 million medical manufacturing facility after withdrawal of an appeal to An Bord Pleanála.

From the car park, we follow signs for Lady Bantry’s Walk.

JUST as paintings “go into a wall” over time, as their owners become so used to them that they hardly notice them any more, so a once-dominant feature of the Irish coastline has become almost invisible.

THE rustic poet Patrick Kavanagh put it lyrically when he wrote that “ordinary things wear lovely wings”.

AN interpretive centre is to be built on one of West Cork’s most-visited islands in a bid to boost tourism.

Tommy Barker says Yew Lodge is a big home that whispers discretion.

TWO acres of gardens that include an orchard with pear, apple and cherry trees, privacy and right of way access to the sea near Glengarriff in West Cork are some of the attractions of this €480,000 property.