The sea isn’t the only thing that might go bump in the night this weekend at this West Cork seaside hideaway — approach it this Halloween Weekend, and the sight of the front door is enough to stop you in your tracks.

Right on the Wild Atlantic Way 15 minutes west of Clonakilty, and close enough to see and hear the sea, is this renovated and upgraded coastal home of character, at a spot called Ganniv Mór near Ardfield and Rathbarry villages.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today.

You could be run off your feet today if you go to view either of two sites, or a do-er upper bungalow, for sale in West Cork’s pretty and elevated coastal village of Ardfield.

Buiseness Sivola showed a smart change of gear to run out an impressive winner of the REA Grimes Property Consultants Hurdle at Fairyhouse yesterday.

Firstly an open declaration — those looking for a petrolhead’s review of an electric car won’t find one here. I know nothing of horsepower, engine size, or torque. I have two considerations when driving: Can this car get me from A to B without any hassle and is the stereo any good?

An old, stone wall which was part of the original Castlefreke estate of Lord Carbery bounds Cloonbeg, a four-bed home which is for sale in West Cork’s Rathbarry village.

Rathbarry, West Cork €499,000

A Willie Mullins clean sweep in the Grade One Irish Stallion Farms EBF Mares Novice Hurdle, headed by Adriana Des Mottes, capped another big afternoon for Ireland's champion jumps trainer at Fairyhouse.

The Co Cork coastline may not have been as ravaged by the recent storms as their counterparts in Kerry and Clare, but damage was still done and repairs are required, writes Noel Baker as our three-part series on how the the storms changed Ireland continues.

RATHBARRY, CASTLEFREKE AND THE LONG STRAND (CLONAKILTY)

Mikey Fogarty took the riding honours on ‘Amateur’ day in Cork yesterday, completing a double on De Benno and Don’t Back Down, but also picked -up a four-day whip ban.

Your articles (Jan 23, Page 9) on the bureaucratic delays and difficulties preventing work on waterways in West Cork was very interesting.

County councillors in West Cork are to meet with Inland Fisheries Ireland officials shortly to outline concerns that legislation protecting fish is putting people’s lives at risk.

People living in a West Cork village have reacted angrily to news that a potential spawning ground may hold up vital work which could prevent their homes and businesses being flooded yet again.

The OPW is to fast track flood relief work in the Clonakilty area with a public consultation process likely to take place in the West Cork town within the next six weeks.

Victims of the summer floods which devastated West Cork towns Clonakilty and Rathbarry are this morning waking to yet more heart-breaking damage, after torrential rainfall struck two months to the night after the June crisis.

Monks from Glenstal Abbey will officiate at a fully sung Tridentine Latin mass for the funeral of the 11th Baron Carbery in Rathbarry today.

Cork County Council is to divert money allocated for road improvements in West Cork to repair roads badly damaged in the region by unprecedented flooding on Jun 28.

OVER 150 houses and some 200 commercial properties were severely damaged in Co Cork during recent flooding.

Large parts of Cork City are now “uninsurable” due to the spate of flooding incidents in recent years — the most recent of which occurred just over a week ago.

A picturesque village which regularly captures national attention through the Tidy Towns competition is fighting for its survival.

SOCIOLOGISTS employ all sorts of clever-sounding techniques in order to determine how social systems, such as small rural communities for example, function.

Tony McCoy’s visits to Ireland aren’t always the most successful, but he took his total for the two days at Fairyhouse to four when guiding Get Me Out Of Here to a smooth success in the Keelings’ Irish Strawberry Hurdle, before powering Alderwood to victory in the Rathbarry and Glenview Studs Novice Hurdle.

CLONAKILTY has been named the tidiest town in West Cork, but its Tidy Towns Committee have been warned about overusing hanging baskets and window boxes.

This west Cork oasis is a feast for the eyes, which the public can drool over at next weekend’s open days, writes Tommy Barker

Once home to a ruin, this coastal Kilkern site has been transformed, writes Tommy Barker.

THE clachan and baile fearann are terms continually tossed about when the subject of rural one-off housing comes up.

THIS seaside cottage is going to fit some new owner hand in glove — at least it did so for its vendor, actor and puppeteer Dominic Moore.

THE For Sale sign has gone up, bang on time, for Primrose Hill, a west Cork coastal property putting out its wares, as real primroses make their spring presence shown.

THIS prime 150-acre farm at Curraheen, Conna, Co Cork, last sold in 2002, and made £1.47 million in punts at the time — the equivalent of €1.87, but a lot more if indexed for inflation in the meantime.

THE chance to work from home, or live next to a business, is one thing: having that option right by the seaside is an altogether rarer thing indeed.

ROAD HOME can continue Jessica Harrington’s terrific run by landing the Auld Stand and Kellys’ Pub Ashbourne Maiden Hurdle at Fairyhouse this afternoon.

BACK in Ballydehob, CCM’s Jim O’Brien is selling a 38-acre non-residential farm in a scenic location.

A REBEL cleric who openly defied a bishop’s authority was buried yesterday.

ALL tourist roads may soon lead to west Cork following the success of the Clonakilty district in a prestigious competition funded and organised by Fáilte Ireland and the European Union.

JOHN OXX’S once-raced Alarazi gets the vote to take the Group Three 2000 Guineas Trial Stakes at Leopardstown this afternoon.

IF Clonakilty bills itself as the beach capital of west Cork, this Donour farmhouse is close to the centre of the action.

IT’S just over a year ago now since number 1 Rathbarry village went on sale and it made around €800,000 at the time.

THERE’S a certain clique that dubs Ardfield and Rathbarry in west Cork as Clonakilty Four, mainly because of the high house prices in the pretty seaside area within an hour’s commute of Cork city.

THE country’s newest priest imparted his first blessings to his family last night after an historic ordination.