Tommy Barker visits the lush green countryside home of Mrs Brown’s Boys’ Eilish O’Carroll, all down to Winnie McGoogan’s winning ways.

THE barometers used by the fishermen of old would have told you, if you needed telling in the first place.

A dramatic May Day cliff rescue ended in elation as heroic coastguard volunteers returned to its owners a dog that fell 45m.

The stormy weather which may have swept one Dutch holidaymaker to his death and resulted in another man going missing has hampered search efforts, with galeforce winds expected to batter the West Cork coast today.

The search for a Dutch tourist missing since last Saturday resumes today after the body of his friend was taken from the sea off the West Cork coast yesterday.

Rose Martin winds her way past quirky cul de sacs, hidden roads and huddled houses to uncover a gem, minutes from the sea.

Twenty-five artists’ interpretations of Glandore Harbour have formed a one-off exhibition.

Farranlea Road, Cork €200,000

A coastal community which witnessed one of the worst trawler tragedies in recent years has launched a bid to secure an inshore lifeboat.

The Cork section of what Fáilte Ireland hopes will be an iconic coastal tourist drive will not stop in Glengarriff, as planned, and will extend into Kinsale.

If this high-end, West Cork house looks familiar, it’s because it graced these pages a year ago as a stand-out example of quality contemporary architecture (delivered by Germans) in part of the south’s most wonderful landscape.

’Dooneen’ is a nice place to be on fine summer’s day. Tommy Barker reports

A fisherman who fell from his vessel off the south-west coast yesterday managed to swim one-and-half miles through treacherous conditions before waving for help from a small island.

Symbolic fires blazed on headlands and islands along the Cork coast last night marking a timeline of the Titanic’s ill-fated maiden voyage across the Atlantic a century ago.

The grieving father of the final crewman to be recovered following the sinking of the trawler Tit Bonhomme was “heartbroken but relieved” after his son’s body was brought ashore yesterday.

More than 50 volunteer divers will take part in the search today as part of what is likely to be the last push to find two fishermen who have been missing since their trawler sank off the Cork coast nearly three weeks ago.

The search for the bodies of three fishermen believed drowned off the coast of Co Cork has been expanded today to cover an 18-mile radius.

FARMERS, the self-employed, nurses who’ve just finished a night shift, retired and off-duty gardaí are all to be found in the midst of the search for the missing fishermen at Glandore Bay.

PRAYERS will be said this morning that the weather will change sufficiently to allow divers to search the wreck of the Tit Bonhomme, which may conceal the bodies of five fishermen feared drowned after it struck rocks and sank at the entrance to a bay in Co Cork.

THE bodies of some of the five missing crewmen of the tragic Tit Bonhomme trawler may still be trapped on board.

THE seagulls danced overhead.

A HIGH-FLYING past pupil dropped in to visit his old school yesterday — in his Coast Guard helicopter.

ALREADY extended and renovated, this three-bed farmhouse/holiday home conversion is at Lickowen, on west Cork’s stunning Toe Head.

A major search operation was sparked early today when flares were spotted off the south west coast.

BELIEVE it or not, west Cork has also been affected by the property slump, so now is the time to pick up that second or retirement property.

Tommy Barker is charmed by the renovated success of Grove House.

A SPECIAL bank account was opened yesterday to help expand the search for Jonathan Herlihy as his parents wait for the sea to give up their son’s body.

Boat owners from as far away as Dundalk have offered their services to help end the agony for the Herlihy family desperate to find their missing son, Jonathan.

PEOPLE leading the search for the body of the student who drowned saving two swimmers appealed last night for more volunteers and boats. The full-scale sea, shore and cliff search for the body of Jonathan Herlihy will enter its sixth day today along the West Cork coast.

A PETITION is being drawn up by environmentalists and divers who want the Government to stop the salvage of the Kowloon Bridge, which sank off Cork nearly 20 years ago.