A bearded seal has re-appeared in Courtmacsherry Bay and yet again it was the O’Driscolls, farmers at Kilbrittan who were the first to see the big, white animal hauled up on a sandbank.

IF Michael Collins hoped the Northern Offensive would concentrate the political focus on Northern Ireland, he must have been sorely disappointed, because the orgy of murder was not confined to the North.

SIX months ago, after 14 years of courtship, West Cork couple Siobhán Holland and Mark Keohane eventually set a day for their wedding.

A POLISH man had to be rescued by gardaí after he was assaulted and pushed into the river off Bandon Bridge.

Gardaí say they are treating the disappearance of a 60-year-old woman in Co Cork last week as suspicious.