The homes we have selected are within a defined price bracket: nothing less than €185,000, nothing more than €230,000.

A group of friends stole a keg of Guinness by wheeling it down the road to a house in a shopping trolley.

For anyone worrying about the future, here’s one possible crumb of comfort. In one vision of a West Cork town 100 years in the future, Skibbereen’s West Cork Hotel has an outdoor swimming pool.

Music festivals, sailing races, arts displays, and a poetry marathon are some of the events to be enjoyed this August bank holiday weekend.

Two floods within 12 hours left dozens of homes damaged as surface water depths topped 20in in a West Cork market town.