GET the point? It might cost you a bit, but West Cork’s €1.5m Drishane Point is a sort of place apart, while also anchored to a Special Area of Conservation, near famed marine lake Lough Hyne.

A daring rescue by the crew of a Baltimore lifeboat of 23 people from the steamship Alondra, which was wrecked off the West Cork village almost a century ago, is to feature in a major RNLI touring exhibition commemorating the centenary of the First World War.