Never mind the trip to Japan, Ireland’s rugby stars will have racked up plenty of miles before the World Cup even starts and that is just the way Robbie Henshaw likes it.

We’re trying to sustain a miserable leftover of Atlantic salmon bearing little resemblance to historic abundance. Why? The common denominator is man, writes John Murphy

Just south of Clew Bay and sandwiched between Clare Island and Inishbofin is the roughly equally-sized island of Inishturk.

The discovery of a bearded seal at Timoleague recently, prompts renewed interest in early records, writes Richard Collins

It’s the coastal route where a marketer’s dream meets the reality of world-class scenery. Tony Clayton-Lea sings the virtues of the Wild Atlantic Way.

A man has died in a diving tragedy in county Galway.

THE other day I got a chance to talk to a marine biologist who’s an expert on conger eels.

There was music on both sides of my family and I always knew it was my passion.

Europe's largest adventure race gets underway in the west of Ireland this weekend.

TO SEE intensive farming in the west of Ireland, look towards the sea, where last week’s announcement by Marine Harvest Ireland of plans to develop a new €3.5 million organic salmon farm site in Bantry Bay raised the profile of an industry which has been quietly but steadily advancing for over 30 years.

ARTISTS love Connemara scenery. They’ve been depicting it for decades and its scenery still has strong hints of the west of Ireland landscape and cottages that inspired Paul Henry about a century ago.

IT’S in one of the most beautiful locations in the West of Ireland and has enough land and is remote enough to be a perfect retreat.

WITH its thatch sprouting in fits and starts, this Renvyle, Co Galway home is as much in need of a comb-over as a makeover.

IN SEVEN days we will be given an opportunity denied to the vast majority of the European Union’s 500 million citizens.

Two teenage girls remain in a critical condition in hospital this morning following the crash that claimed the lives of two other girls in Co Galway yesterday afternoon.

THE body of a deep sea diver, reported missing on Tuesday evening, was recovered off the coast of Malin Head, Co Donegal, yesterday morning.

The Coastguard has this morning resumed its search for a diver who has been missing off the west coast since yesterday.

LOVED by movie-makers, painters and photographers, the ancient bridge at Leenane, swept away by flood waters yesterday, was more importantly a vital part of a busy tourist route.