“It took three days of nudging to get her out of the shed. It was attended by many frustrations not least the very strong winds of last week.

Sixty-one-year-old William Walsh is a long-time angler who is very interested in mackerel. But he is concerned that they are declining.

Another big crane is emerging on the Cork Harbour skyline. It is being built at Cork Dockyard in Rusbrooke where it is the third in a successful construction and export project that has been developed there. It is an impressive sight.

Good news this week from Skibbereen where Gary McMahon, leader of the project, says that work on the restoration of the famous Ilen, the last of Ireland’s traditional wooden sailing schooners, has progressed so well at Hegarty’s Boatyard in Oldcourt ...

BALLYNAMONA Strand on the East Cork coastline is internationally renowned for a long list of bird life including shrikes, larks, citrine wagtails, sandpipers, pipits, American coot and red-necked stint.

The fishing industry is preparing for a legal battle against Marine Minister Michael Creed.

Ophelia underlined how the oceans and our island nation are linked inextricably and should raise public awareness of the importance of the sea.

DRIVING on the main road from Midleton to Whitegate you don’t see Ballinacurra Port and you don’t pass through the village of Ballinacurra itself.  So you don’t get a sense of the maritime tradition of this village. Yet it has a huge marine history.

That Spike Island is now Europe’s leading tourist attraction underlines what I have been writing about in this column – that Cork should be Ireland’s maritime capital.

I also put this question to the Minister: 'Does the statement possibly mean that the closure/transfer of the operational functions and location of the Naval Base from Haulbowline Island will be considered?'The reply from the Minister’s Press Office, ...

“Who would have thought that Ireland is now one of the best places in Europe to see humpback whales?” So says Simon Berrow, Head of Science at the Irish Whale and Dolphin Group, as “we enter the whale season.

The River Lee flows magnificently through lovely cityscapes and countryside to the sea, passing villages, caressing an island town and harbour islands storied in maritime history, including the operational base of the nation’s Naval Service.

Cork Dockyard linked with Russia this week as another heavy lift ship loaded two gantry cranes for transport to Murmansk where they will be able to work in conditions from minus 40 to plus 40 degrees Centigrade.

PUBLIC concern about the heavy industrialisation of Cork Harbour is reflected in Emails received following last week’s column about Bord Pleanala and the Indaver incinerator proposed for Ringaskiddy.

I sat in the cockpit of a 39-foot yacht on the Royal Cork Yacht Club marina at Crosshaven on Monday morning and talked to a man who is facing what to me is a disaster and who is meeting that challenge with calmness and determination.

I was aboard a vessel at Monkstown Marina in Cork Harbour talking to the British Naval Officer commanding it when I began to wonder why our Naval Service is not involved in sail training in the way the Royal Navy is.

Gossip Girl ended five years ago so it's no wonder Ed Westwck is keen to shake off its shadow. He tells Susan Griffin why his latest role, as a potty-mouthed Eighties double-glazing salesman, might be the one to achieve it

As a junior reporter I was told the story of the Ballycotton Cross, part of the history of this East Cork coastal village.

I’m delighted to hear that discussions have been taking place between the group which wants to honour the memory of Edward Bransfield, the Corkman who discovered the Antarctic and Cork County Council.

Do the Taoiseach and the Government regard the Naval Base at Haulbowline as secondary to Indaver? That question has been raised with me by Naval Service personnel since Bord Pleanála deferred, for the fourth time, its decision on the incinerator at ...

A biting, cold wind was blowing in across the water at Kinsale on Thursday evening as the town’s historical society gathered on the quayside in memory of two sons from a local fishing family who had both been uniquely honoured by the award of Polar ...

By Tom MacSweeneyThere is a determination in Passage West to have a museum in the town, with a strong focus on the huge maritime tradition and culture of the area.