Water sport school set to harness wave of popularity

HOLD tight — surf’s up, up, up and away as Cork’s first kite-surfing school is set to open within days.

A new company, Vertigo, plans to use one of the county’s top beaches to teach the country’s fastest-growing and most exhilarating new water sport.

Based at Oysterhaven, chief instructor Paddy Buckley will start lessons at Kilbrittain’s Harbour View Beach at Coolmaine, near Kinsale from April 1.