Dr Phil Kieran, a co-presenter on RTÉ’s ‘You Should Really See a Doctor’ says the recent arrival of his second son means his running routine is on hold.

GIVEN the amount of water that has sluiced down on the countryside this month, it’s a good test of a house if it has stayed dry, and smells dry, these dark winter days. 

Set in an area awash with sweeping views and nautical lore, there’s plenty to explore near this spacious family home, says Tommy Barker.

Tommy Barker joins an expert woodturner in a bid to discover what could have been if he had not thrown out his rusty old lathe.

Tommy Barker says there is a lot of quirky charm to Raven’s Rest and an independent granny flat too.

Beaches and marinas across the country are bathing in the warm waters of European approval — 86 of them have been awarded the prestigious Blue Flag status.

TWO big Kinsale offers come to market independently this week for receivers — one being 95 acres of spectacularly-sited land at Pregane, next to where a €200m golf resort development was proposed a decade ago.

Route planning for a historic tall ship which sank with more than 30 people on board appeared to more concerned with photo-ops than safety, a damning marine investigation has found.

Carrigaline, Cork €475,000

Theo Dorgan’s new poetry collection, Nine Bright Shiners, utilises nautical metaphor to remember nine dead friends and loved-ones, says Thomas McCarthy.

A coastal Cork mill building which literally has come back from the dead has a poignant anniversary next year— it’s by an on-shore spot close to the 1915 sinking of a British tanker.

Esther N McCarthy is getting all the gear in place for a very comfortable, jam-making season. Oh no! It’s nearly autumn.

Swimming has been banned on one of Cork’s premier beaches as a result of excessive E.coli bacteria levels in the water.

An interim report has been released into the sinking of a Dutch tall ship training vessel with 30 people onboard off the Cork coast a year ago today.

RNLI lifeboats in Ireland launched an amazing 1,087 times in 2013 bringing 1,278 people to safety.

From full sail ahead on the high seas to stylish, limited edition handbags for the high street.

She once cut a magnificent figure, plying the seas under billowing full sail. But the final chapter in almost a century of rich maritime history is finally drawing to a close.

The historic tall ship Astrid is finally set to be cut up and scrapped next week.

The novice sailors who survived the summertime grounding and sinking of the tall ship Astrid will be reunited, next year, at sea.

The historic tall ship Astrid is to be scrapped, bringing a sad end to the 95-year-old vessel’s rich maritime history.

She should have led a flotilla of yachts in a parade of sail in to the magnificent Kinsale harbour in Co Cork six weeks ago.

The Coast Guard has given the green light for work to start on a major salvage operation on the stricken tall ship, Astrid.

A feast of fine foods down on the farm

IT MIGHT seem bit of paradox, but the best way to see Ireland’s raw, elemental natural beauty is to leave the place behind you, in your wake.

Plans to remove the wreck of the stricken tall ship Astrid are now at an advanced stage.

Life is an ocean and love is a boat, as the song goes, but thankfully, there was no love on the rocks for these newlyweds.

Teenage sailors who were at the centre of a dramatic sea rescue after their tall ship sail training vessel sank are eager to get back on the water.

It was déjà vu for the crew of the Courtmacsherry lifeboat yesterday.

A teenage sailor dramatically rescued with 29 crew mates when a historic tall ship struck rocks and sank off the Cork coast has said emergency training helped them keep calm as they awaited help.

Twenty-three teenagers and seven crewmen have been rescued after the Dutch tall ship Astrid ran aground off the coast of Cork.

Thirty people have been rescued from a tall ship which ran aground off the south coast of Ireland.

Cork, the country’s largest coastal county, has lost four of its blue flag beaches.

A great man for Shank’s Mare, one of The Menu’s finest ever escapades was on the Burren, so the prospect of a walking weekend at the peak of wildflower season led by author/guide Tony Kirby (May 10-12) in Co Clare has him dusting down the clogs.

It operated for over a century out of a shed with no running water. But now the members of one of Ireland’s busiest Coast Guard units can boast one of the most advanced bases in the country.

Seven beaches in Co Cork have reopened after the latest test results showed a significant fall in E.coli levels.

Confusion reigned yesterday as lifeguards warned swimmers not to bathe at seven beaches in Co Cork, despite test results showing they were within permissible EU levels for the bacteria E.coli.