The Latest Breaking News from West Cork

€20 million later, Castle Freke's restoration remains unfinished

More than two decades after Stephen Ralfe Evans-Freke brought Castle Freke back into his family’s ownership, the West Cork estate is still undergoing restoration. Evans-Freke, a retired Wall Street investment banker, bought the ancestral property around the turn of the millennium, after the Evans-Freke family had owned it for generations…

The Times of India · Oct 5

West Cork ‘one of the most beautiful places in the world’, says Adam Scott

The Severance actor’s new film Hokum is directed by Irish filmmaker Damian McCarthy.

Evening Standard · Apr 27

Paul Mescal's property portfolio: from north London to West Cork

The Bafta-nominated Irish actor is believed to have bought a home in a popular north-west London neighbourhood

Evening Standard · Feb 20

Where was Bodkin filmed and is it a real place? Filming locations of new Netflix thriller

Bodkin is Netflix's latest thriller and after seeing the stunning locations you might be wondering where it was filmed...

Woman & Home · May 10, 2024

A new start after 60: My job threatened to make me ill – so I moved out of London and started a magazine

Mich Maroney, 61, moved to West Cork and launched Swerve, a literary and arts magazine, in 2022. Now her cottage in Skibbereen has become a creative hub

The Guardian - UK · Sep 11, 2023

Boards, bikes and hikes: my family adventure in West Cork, Ireland

With surfing, e-biking, kayaking, hiking and history, we join an all-action family break around County Cork’s spectacular bays, headlands and beaches

The Guardian - UK · Aug 16, 2023

Stunning footage shows humpback whale feeding near West Cork pub

The humpback whale has been named Harry by the local kids

Irish Mirror · May 22, 2023

Gardaí investigating after female motorcyclist seriously injured in Cork crash

The woman, aged in her 50s, was brought to Cork University Hospital (CUH) following the West Cork collision

Irish Mirror · May 7, 2023

The Irish wrestler who was bigger than Conor McGregor decades before UFC star was even born

Danno O'Mahony was the West Cork farm boy who stormed Pro-Wrestling in the 1930s - a Fighting Irishman - he was huge in the US, decades before anybody had heard of McGregor

Irish Mirror · Apr 12, 2023

Ian Bailey could be left homeless as eviction ban lifted - but ex 'certainly won’t take him in'

Exclusive - Ian Bailey was given notice to quit his apartment in Bantry, West Cork, before Christmas but was able to remain there due to the eviction ban.

Irish Mirror · Apr 2, 2023