€2,187,500 worth of parking tickets.

Dan MacCarthy discusses Carthy’s Islands in Roaringwater Bay

Wandering around Horse Island, visitors must take the utmost care lest they suffer the same fate as the numerous sheep that have fallen headlong to their doom down deep mine shafts, writes Dan MacCarthy.

Well, of course, we did have bears, but not on Bere Island. The island is named after the peninsula and is derived from the Spanish princess Bera who was married to the first king of Munster, Eogan More.

Sterling and dollar strength is delivering a boon in sales, says country homes estate agent Michael H Daniels. 

The three sailors in their 60s and 70s were clinging to the side of their boat when they saw an island come into view.

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.

It is believed a man in his 60s who died when an 18ft yacht capsized off the West Cork coast this morning was living in the wider Schull area.

Location: Castletownshend, Cork

Rossbrin and Stouke, West Cork

Water safety has been highlighted ahead of this bank holiday weekend.

Three men in their 20s were last night being treated in hospital after they were rescued from the sea when their dinghy capsized off the west Cork coast yesterday evening.

A man is understood to be in critical condition in Cork University Hospital last night after he and two other men tried to swim from an island off the west Cork coast back to the mainland after their boat capsized.

Tranquil Cluain Áilinn, complete with pontoon and privacy, will be a stretch for most, writes Tommy Barker

IT will be a hard job keeping up with the neighbours at this farmhouse buy — but, it’s likely the buyers will in any case be fairly well-heeled, and Hunter wellington-shod.

A MARINE casualty investigation into the death of a 56-year-old Frenchman off the Cork coast has recommended that kayakers should use life jackets instead of buoyancy aids when canoeing offshore.

A BRAVE woman battled for almost three hours to keep her husband afloat after a kayaking accident off the south coast, an inquest heard yesterday.

FRANTIC efforts to save a fisherman who got into trouble off the Co Galway coast were unsuccessful.

THERE’S only a handful of houses along the front row of the road around Rossbrin in west Cork – it the most scenic of ways of navigating the distance between Ballydehob and Schull.

HOUSES in the west Cork “lifestyle cove” of Rossbrin rarely come up for sale, they get handed down through the generations, and there’s little surprise about that.

SOMERVILLA says a lot, even in its name. This Castletownshend west Cork house does indeed have direct links with the Somerville family of literary renown: it is villa-esque, and, well, it holds promises of summers-to-come too.

Tommy Barker says a holiday haven near Schull is a real gem

THE West Cork market is about to come out of its seasonal slumbers, and auctioneer Martin Swanton of Ballydehob believes that the auguries are good as he brings a €1.1 million Ballydehob offering to market.