Courtmacsherry Harbour Lifeboat has paid tribute to its crew for their life-saving efforts in the Fastnet disaster 40 years ago.

As plans are being finalised to commemorate the 40th anniversary Fastnet Race disaster, one of the competitors in the race has spoken about how he thought he was going to die in the storm, which claimed the life of 19 yachtsmen.

Former Fastnet lighthouse keeper Gerald Butler is due to represent fellow Irish light keepers at a memorial service for 1979 Fastnet Yacht Race on the Isle of Wight this evening.

Just because they’re in bonus territory at the Euro 19 finals doesn’t mean Ireland’s young guns are treating today’s semi-final as a free pass.

For years, my friends and I have line-fished on Beara Peninsula, practising ‘catch and release’, but stocks are being ruinously depleted by gillnetting from boats, says Ashley Hayden.

His Bandon accent doesn’t quite reach the same caustic shrill of exasperation as, say, a certain someone from Mayfield, but there could be no denying that this was Conor Hourihane channelling his inner Roy.

A Brittany Ferries customer has accused the company of “screwing over” customers who will incur extra expense as a result of its decision to cancel sailings from Cork to France and Spain this weekend.

Some 5,000 ferry passengers are facing disruption over the next two weekends following confirmation that several Brittany Ferries’ sailings from Cork and the UK to France and Spain have been cancelled over the next two weekends.

Almost 1,500 passengers have been hit by a ferry fault which has forced the cancellation of Brittany Ferries’ sailings from Cork to France and Spain this weekend.

A number of scheduled sailings between Cork and mainland Europe have been cancelled by Brittany Ferries.

The UK is to cancel all the contracts for ferry services to be provided in the case of a no-deal Brexit.

The Irish navy and air corps played a key role in the seizure of at least 500kg of cocaine in an international operation targeting a major drug-trafficking gang.

From gannets using it instead of seaweed to build nests on the Skelligs right down to it spoiling the most remote Antarctic habitats, plastic has become the environmental scourge of the age.

An estimated 640,000 tonnes of lost fishing nets kill more than 136,000 seals, sea lions, and whales every year, in addition to millions of birds, turtles and fish, in the world’s oceans, according to World Animal Protection.

A teenager in England with cerebral palsy has been left unable to communicate after thieves stole her computer.

Time and again, Leo Cullen has teed up a Champions League tie as a meeting of opposites.

London City Airport has marked its 30th anniversary by publishing artists' impressions of its £400 million redevelopment.

A man in England who imported a child doll to have sex with has been spared prison.

A 17-year-old girl was sexually assaulted twice, by two different men, as she made her way home from a festival in England.

When it comes to boats and sailing, West Cork is a mecca of sorts depending on outlook and interests.

West Cork is preparing to be the centre of attention in the sailing world over the coming week, as thousands of sailors from around the world and closer to home head for the Fastnet Rock.

The British Prime Minister will be updated on the Grenfell Tower recovery effort later as the number of high rises feared to pose similar fire risks mounts.

Manslaughter charges are being considered by detectives investigating the Grenfell Tower fire as it emerged the structure had failed fire safety tests.

Downing Street has since confirmed that 11 blocks of flats in eight local authority areas in England have been found to have flammable facades.

Combustible cladding has been found on seven high-rise blocks of flats in four local authority areas in England, Downing Street has said.

When he first visited the Cork of his ancestors, Henry Ford was embroiled in a fascinating saga revolvong around an apparent bequest to charity. Dave Hannigan tries to seperate fact from fiction.

The wife of British Royal Marine Alexander Blackman, who fatally shot an injured Taliban fighter in Afghanistan, has spoken of her joy at the prospect of him coming home in a few weeks.

US firefighter Greg MacCurtain will run the Cork City Marathon with his severely ill daughter, writes Áilín Quinlan

An axe-wielding "killer clown" prankster has been jailed after he chased a pregnant woman the night before Halloween, a UK court has heard.

Menacing seagulls are causing such havoc in Britain that vigilantes are arming themselves with guns and launching their own culls, a British politician has said.

USA: Lightning, a spider, and now a snake — a central Florida man is proving to be a survivor.

Germany: A fraudster persuaded a 75-year-old Swiss woman to transfer 45,000 francs (€41,000) to him as a “police officer” supposedly taking part in a nationwide programme to guard elderly people against telephone scams.

USA: A 42-year-old skydiver with more than 18,000 jumps has made history by becoming the first person to leap without a parachute and land in a net instead.

A 16-year-old boy has been spared detention after launching cyber attacks on websites across the world and sending bomb hoaxes to airlines via Twitter.

USA: A New Jersey woman found a winning lottery ticket worth over $470,000 (€425,000) while preparing to file her taxes.

USA: A 59-year-old man was killed when the motorcycle he was driving at night collided with a black cow on a blacktopped road.

The holiday plans of thousands of people have been thrown into disarray after technical problems forced the cancellation of this weekend’s sailings of Brittany Ferries flagship Pont-Aven vessel between Cork and France.

How Shackleton and his crew of Irish, English, and Scots worked together was a million miles away from the events taking place at the same time in Dublin 1916, writes Patrick G O’Shea of the University of Maryland