Sean O’Riordan Private William Patrick Ryan was an unusually courageous man. Having fought and survived several bloody battles in the First World War, he then volunteered in its aftermath to exhume the dead for Christian burial, even though he could have been blown to pieces by unexploded shells.

Residents in West Cork are being asked to clear scrub vegetation from around family homes amid fears of a spate of illegally-set wildfires in the weeks ahead.

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

A group of actors hoping to make Cork the landscape for their upcoming feature film have raised more than €11,000 in financial backing through crowd-funding.

Seventeen kilometres of mains water pipes are to be replaced in areas of Co Cork where supply breakages have dogged communities for years.

The 1916 Easter Rising commemorations will continue today around the country, including a state ceremonial event in Cork City — the only such event in Munster.

Some of the events taking place across Cork to commemorate the centenary of the Rising include:

Patrick O’Donoghue just edged PJ Cooney in the last shot of their Munster intermediate championship clash at Templemichael on Saturday. 

Was Cork’s dramatic fightback to snatch a ninth All-Ireland senior title in ten years the moment Ladies Football moved in from the margins? Coach Eamonn Ryan debates the past, the present and the future.

Family units in cities and satellite towns are being broken up as rent allowance schemes are reportedly "falling short of the mark".

A cross between orienteering, treasure-hunting and tourism, geocaching can, paradoxically, get both children and adults away from the computer screen and out into the real world, writes Conor Power.

Cork football manager Brian Cuthbert admits the retirement of Alan O’Connor leaves the Rebels light at midfield, but he has challenged prospective candidates to stake their claim for a spot.

Tóchar — Walking Ireland’s Ancient Pilgrim Paths

In the first of its type in the country, a mobile unit is on the roads of West Cork helping to promote good mental health.

Hands off rural communities — that’s the message the West Cork Communities Alliance wants to deliver to Government.

A head shop owner who stored a cannabis-like chemical substance was told yesterday that her offence “merited” a few days in jail.

Construction of a €10m Tesco outlet in Bantry, Co Cork, is expected to commence in the first quarter of 2013 after An Bord Pleanála gave permission for the 25,000 sq ft facility at the weekend.

Anyone looking for an Olympic gold medal in canoe or kayak wild-river slalom would do well to cast an eye over this Kealkil, West Cork bungalow — it looks over an historic castle, river rapids and dramatic, pulse-quickening falls.

David O’Mahony beat Denis Wilmot by a bowl of odds in a gripping Jerry Desmond Cup final at the Pike.

One of the smallest national schools in Ireland is vying for a prize at a prestigious international film festival.

One of the smallest national schools in Ireland is vying for a prize at a prestigious international film festival.

Pride and a fanatical will to win were abundant ingredients in Bantry’s win over Beara in Saturday’s semi-final thriller in Kealkil.

It hasn’t been the summer we were hoping for.

A Royal Irish Regiment ranger, described at his funeral Mass as a gentle giant, was laid to rest with military honours yesterday after he was killed by a stray bullet during a training exercise in Wales.

You don’t have to hide your young away in this West Cork property with extra space for a brood — even if it is called Cuckoo’s Nest, after some of that species habit of laying eggs in other birds’ nests. If you like it, you can simply buy it, lock, stock and basement.

A summer of stepping up to the mark.

Up to 3,000 people from communities all over West Cork are expected to stage a protest in Bantry on Friday over changes which they warn could force the closure of small rural schools.

THERE’S always been a fascination about blacksmithing and the village forge — the intense heat, the gruelling amount of physical labour, and the almost magical transformation of metal into such a wide variety of objects — both utilitarian and beautiful.

A WELSH biochemist accused of supplying cannabis said she enjoyed smoking a pipe of her home-grown drug and that it inspired her to work hard on her land in West Cork.

TWO students shocked by the number of speeding cars passing through a West Cork village have won a major road safety award.

EIGHTY-SIX miles separates the GAA club in Castletownbere and the Páirc Uí Rinn pitch where they hope to claim the Cork intermediate football trophy against Kinsale tomorrow afternoon.

FORTY years after they helped set up an ICA guild in Cill na Martra, Mary Scriven and Eileen O’Connell were on hand for recent events at which the anniversary was celebrated in a display of cuttings, photographs and craft exhibits.

A MYSTERIOUS glitch in the mobile phone network in West Cork has allowed people in a specific region to overhear private mobile conversations from around the county.

AIDAN MURPHY won a place in the Munster senior quarter-final when he beat Edmund Sexton by almost a bowl at Baile Bhuirne on Monday evening.

CORK city council followed the county council’s lead and is making grit and salt available to the public this weekend.

ON Sunday he will be amongst the Cork ranks in Croke Park, but Alan O’Connor’s formative years as a footballer signalled that his career was destined to be spent with the Rebels All-Ireland semi-final opponents Dublin.

ON A very windy hill in south west Cork an unusual herd of cattle is farmed by a colourful couple.