There’s something fishy going on in this Irish village this week — and they’ve flocked from all over the world to take part.

The World Youth Coarse Fishing Championships are to be held in Cork this year and will prove a major boost to the local economy as 5,000-plus bed nights are being booked for teams and supporters attending the event.

In my senior years, it is somewhat frightening to find that the “City by the Lee” continues to be devastated during spring tides by floods, not withstanding the intervening years of advances in technology and a ravaging tiger in funding availability.

THE water supply crisis in Bantry has become so acute that Cork County Council officials told a pharmaceutical plant to reduce usage, or face being cut off.