A GROUP of explorers went on a spectacular lighthouse tour off the coast of Ireland – and there’s a major perk on the boat. Irish Explorer Ireland, who can be found online at @irishexplorer.ie, ...

TWO weekends ago in Baltimore, the divers of the Blackwater Sub Aqua Club got the opportunity to dive the Fastnet Rock. World famous for its impressive lighthouse, the Fastnet offers some of the best ...

Author James Morrissey explores the history of lighthouses off the coast of County Cork. Starting at the Fastnet off the Co. Cork coast, one of the world’s finest lighthouses, James Morrissey, author ...

It could be the most tranquil day on the Atlantic ocean, with the Fastnet Lighthouse framed against a blue horizon and barely a wisp of a cloud in sight. Despite that, Irish Lights maintenance team ...

Storm Barra has made landfall in Ireland and has been battering the Cork coastline since the early hours of Tuesday morning. The weather event has caused flooding and fallen trees across the country, ...

Second volume of colourised images, many with a cork connection, offers a unique insight into Irish life Building Fastnet Lighthouse - circa 1900, Fastnet Rock,Co, Cork. Fastnet light was established ...

To get to the Clare Island Lighthouse in County Mayo, in the west of Ireland, you climb up to the island's northern cliffs along a road of stones, past damp sheep chewing grass, around the bend ...

A designer has created prints of Irish lighthouses inspired by his boyhood hero Tintin. From Rathlin on the northern tip of Ireland to Fastnet in Cork on the south coast, Bert Dufour went on his own ...

The maintenance crew at Fastnet Lighthouse off County Cork captured the breathtaking power of the "weather bomb" Storm Barra with huge sea swells as storm due to continue through Wednesday. Footage ...

IT WAS a hazy night in July 1904 and the steamer Alexandra ploughed slowly through the waters of West Cork, as an extraordinary experiment took place on deck. She was a rickety vessel, “as leaky as a ...

The name Fastnet is familiar to millions of listeners as one of the regions of the BBC Shipping Forecast. In Ireland, the landmark behind the name is equally well known. Cape Clear and the Fastnet ...