Coastal outlook

Tommy Barker pays a visit to an old coastguard station which was converted into lovely holiday cottages.

SAM and Anne Mearns went against a prevailing tide when they arrived in the seaside village of Courtmacsherry back in 1969.

It was a time when old buildings were allowed fall into decay, or were bulldozed, and shiny new bungalows began to represent an emerging and mildly affluent Ireland.