It’s Saturday and the sun is shining. What more could you want? A good beach bar, that’s what. Travel writer Pól Ó Conghaile picks 10 of the best from around the country

CONFRONTED by a 20-foot wave, I’d do the honourable thing.

THE Radisson Blu is built on the site of the former Ballincar House Hotel — a country estate house 6km from Sligo town on the road to the chic seaside settlement of Rosses Point.

WITH its runway jutting into the Atlantic Ocean, the approach to Sligo Airport is one of the most picturesque (and for nervous types, most hair-raising) locations of any Irish airport.

FOR the weekend birder, the peripatetic birder (the travelling salesman, say) or the twitcher, Finding Birds in Ireland, The Complete Guide, by Dempsey and O’Clery is the book to buy.

A full scale search operation was continuing today for a teenager swept into a river while playing football with his younger sister.

Mystery surrounded the identity of the new owner of one of Ireland’s most historic stately homes today.

The Government is considering a joint bid with private interests to buy one of the country’s most historically well-connected stately homes.

Campaigning was under way this weekend to force the Government to bid for one of Ireland’s most historically well-connected stately homes.

The body of a woman who has been missing in Sligo since yesterday evening has washed ashore on Coney Island in Sligo Bay.