Island life: where big bosses, from Google to boardroom chairmen, find a work/life balance

West Cork's Reenaroga Island has been home to sex doctor Dr Andrew Stanway, author of the Joy of Sex, to Ronan Harris' Google VP and MD for the UK and Ireland,  and to the late Liam St John Devlin

Google search: Reenaroga Island's admirers include VP of Google,  UK and Ireland MD,  Ronan Harris, seen here with former Taoiseach Enda Kenny  and Martin Shanahan, CEO, IDA. Picture by Shane O'Neill Photography.

WEST Cork islands are having something of ‘a moment in the sun’ right now, after the €5.5m purchase of Horse Island and the current bidding at €1.25m on the adjacent uninhabited Castle Island, and while they offer seclusion, they also have access issues.

However, there are easier access options, such as islands, with bridges to them. One such, Reenaroga Island in a sheltered cocoon in Roaringwater Bay facing Baltimore, seems to have been quite the lure for busy business types over the past half a century, and is likely to go on doing so as top execs now strive for that elusive work/life balance.