A FAMILY picnic day will be held at the Galley Head Lighthouse on Sunday August 10 from noon 'til 6pm.

SWIMMERS at a selection of top west Cork beaches are facing bathing restrictions due to the detection of excessive e.coli levels

CHARGING people for water is akin to a 'toilet tax' for sufferers of Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), according to one councillor.

By Siobhan Cronin

SHERKIN Island's links with the art world bore fruit this week as a group of former DIT artists, who studied on the island, came together for an exhibition at Skibbereen Arts Festival.

By JJ Hurley

THE government's ongoing recruitment embargo is having a negative impact on Kinsale's efforts to mark the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Lusitania.

DOS:

1. DO check your lights, oil, coolant levels, windscreen wiper fluid, tyre pressure and thread depth before you hit the road. There is quite a bit of rain forecast for the weekend so roads will be

THE local food and craft producers on the Sheep's Head peninsula are delighted with a major boast to their plans, thanks to Bantry Credit Union.

WHERE Bantry leads - with regard to the adoption of new casual trading bye-laws - the rest of the country will follow

In its heyday, the pretty seaside village hosted hundreds of summer holiday visitors, arriving by train from Cork.

VISITORS to West Cork can now 'visit' the world-famous hobbit home of Bilbo Baggins from the fantasy world created by JRR Tolkien.