Hungry Hill Cottage looks out onto sloping wooded countryside and across Bantry Bay to Bere Island.

I notice Fergus Finlay has stopped signing off as a former advisor to the Tánaiste and leader of the Labour party.

I HAVE travelled the road to Castletownbere en route to the Bere Island ferry many times over the last few months, and the sudden stunning vistas were never as striking as on the eve of winter solstice.

DELEGATES attending this weekend’s Ladies Football Congress in Newry will vote on a novel proposal to impose a smoking ban on team officials and managements ‘inside pitch boundaries.’ If accepted, it will be incorporated into the rules of the Association (Cumann Peil na mBan).