It was launched just over a month ago, but a West Cork community’s visionary ‘buy-a-brick’ scheme has already raised one-third of a €15,000 target — money which will be put towards the cost of a job-creating entrepreneur incubation complex.

WITH the nights getting shorter, racing started at 6.25pm at RCYC this week. Race officers Stephen and Rebecca O’Shaughnessy with Jonathan Horgan sent the fleets out into a light south-easterly breeze on Course 93 up to No 3, then a dead run back to Cage, before a reach down to No 12 and then a beat back to Corkbeg where the wind shadow of Ft Carlisle created a few problems rounding the mark.