The first phase of the project, which is being developed by Cork County Council, will focus on developing a launch area for boats/kayaks close to Mallow bridge.

Planning permission for a 14-turbine wind farm between two villages in Cork and Kerry has been quashed by the High Court over its potential impact on the hen harrier.

Multi-million euro plans have been unveiled to upgrade a historic castle and enhance recreational amenities in a North Cork town.

The announcement came after Eoghan Murphy, Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, finally agreed that his department would co-fund the redesign of the weir in Fermoy.

Two distinct riverside properties — Swallow Lodge and Jack’s Cottage — serve up a real slice of rural heaven, writes Trish Dromey.

Cork-based building firm Cumnor Construction has won the contract to build the planned new €2.3m boardwalk at Mallow Bridge.

A price drop should renew interest, says Tommy Barker.

The 2,300 men and women taking part in Ireland’s first ever Ironman think they are built for the long haul — but the event’s host town of Youghal is well ahead of them in the staying power stakes.

The impact on Ireland’s food of key societal and historical changes, over the past 8,000 years, will be illustrated by one of the show gardens at the five-day Bloom festival, which begins at the Phoenix Park in Dublin today.

An Oireachtas committee has been advised a €50,000 boom will have to be deployed on a top angling and leisure river in Co Cork or risk cancelling a number of sporting and social events due to a rapidly-collapsing pier.

Angling can make you a happier, healthier person. Helen O’Callaghan looks at the benefits of getting into a river and reconnecting with nature

The weir on the River Blackwater in Fermoy is crumbling - and threatening the economic livelihood of a North Cork town, according to local councillors who have asked for remedial works to halt the damage.

Cork County Council has issued a tender for engineering and environmental consultants to design and oversee works on the damaged weir on the River Blackwater in Fermoy.

A hoax caller has been slated for potentially putting lives at risk when emergency services spent two hours searching a fast-flowing waterway in Co. Meath.

There has, for a number of years, been a sustained but unsuccessful community campaign to have vital repairs carried out on Fermoy Weir on the River Blackwater.

The Government has been urged to buy Micheal Flatley’s mansion, which is also the ancestral home of the first president of Ireland.

A few sods of turf we saw scattered on roads in parts of West Cork and Co Kerry, in the past week, told a story.

Cork County Council is to carry out an economic impact study in an effort to persuade government departments of the value of replacing a collapsing weir on the River Blackwater in Co Cork.

Those glued to Escape to the Chateau, (including wedding finale last weekend on Channel 4), may now have a much greater appreciation and understanding of what it takes to make an old house work, writes Rose Martin.

Sunday morning in Knocknagree. Two women, one in a pink dressing gown pulling gingerly on a cigarette, stand nattering at a front door. All else is quiet.

Sean Cavanagh has felt the roar of a passionate crowd ringing in his ears as he chased All-Ireland glory with Tyrone for almost a decade and a half, writes Francis Mooney

Dancer Michael Flatley’s Castlehyde mansion has disappeared from property websites, having failed to find a buyer after two years on the open market with a quoted guide price of €20m.

The less flamboyant of the two gate lodges at Dromana Estate is charming in its own right, says Trish Dromey.

A French woman who went for a walk along the bank of the River Blackwater in North Cork was sexually assaulted by a young man in a bizarre series of events.

Carol O’Callaghan pays a visit to Ballynatray House and discovers tales of serendipity, love-at-first-sight and hidden treasures.

Joe Leogue revisits the Tina Satchwell missing person case as today marks six months since the last reported sighting of the Youghal woman.  

Compared with the west coast, the south coast has a mere smattering of islands. From Hook Head in Co Wexford to Cape Clear in Co Cork, there are a few clusters of islands at Glandore, Cork Harbour, and Kilmore Quay, writes Dan MacCarthy. 

Denis Walsh’s life, so many ways, has been a weave of Cork and Waterford.

Tommy Barker reports on a west Waterford property that has been massively upgraded despite only being originally built in 2004

Sean Cavanagh is feeling the heat as he walks among friends and neighbours close to the fast-flowing boundary that divides Tyrone and Armagh, the River Blackwater.

Fears have been expressed that one of the country’s best known angling rivers could soon be devoid of salmon and cost the economy millions of euro in lost revenue.

Trish Dromey says a cottage in Cappoquin on the market for €190,000 is cute and colourful and has unparalleled valley views.

A decision made in the late 1960s to allow farmers purchase a former railway line which ran through North Cork could hold up plans to turn it into a greenway walking and cycling route.

The Brexit vote has sparked renewed interest in Michael Flatley’s mansion, which is on the market for €20m.

There is character aplenty on offer in this pristine period home by the sea, writes Tommy Barker.