Glenbeg Lake in Co Cork’s Beara peninsula, has one of the country’s largest identified remaining Pearl Mussel populations.

It’s Saturday and the sun is shining. What more could you want? A good beach bar, that’s what. Travel writer Pól Ó Conghaile picks 10 of the best from around the country

This three-bed detached on its own site, with an asking price of €225,000, is as suited to a first time buyer as well as those thinking of trading down.Tommy Barker reports

AUCTIONEER Billy Casey has a choice of two solid semis on offer in the inner Cork city suburbs at the moment.