LAST week, in glorious weather, we walked the headlands of west Cork. On Three Castles Head, beyond Barley Cove, we found lizards basking on the walls of the collapsed 15th century bawn, golden lizards, sharp-eyed and fast, disappearing between the stones at the hint of a footfall or shadow.

HAVING sailed around the Mizen on many occasions I am well aware that the small bay between it and Three Castles Head is one of the nastiest and least-overlooked pieces of shoreline in the State.

Navy divers have found another bale of cocaine floating in the sea between Mizen Head and Three Castles Head.

A search operation is continuing off the south-west coast following what is being described as the biggest-ever cocaine seizure in Ireland.

SEARCH teams went into a wild sea off the west Cork coast yesterday morning looking for another casualty of the unforgiving waves.

Dozens of suspicious packages have been pulled from the sea where rescuers are searching for a man missing off the west Cork coast this afternoon.