Keeper of the lightStories trip effortlessly from the lips of Richard Foran, keeper of the lighthouse on Skellig Michael, as he describes the singularity of the keeper’s life and remembers various adventures, including the night he came to the rescue of Charles Haughey. MIRIAM MULCAHY, with photographerVALERIE O’SULLIVAN , were fogbound on the rocks for three days – but had a whale of a time
Record of owning 'half the world'Asset-stripping fire sales, negotiations for wine, the price of premium pigs and the fate of Jews in Cork – it’s all part of the immense archive of the Blarney Castle Estate, where no deal or correspondence was too small to go unmentioned
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Talk TimeBrendan O'Neill, editor of Spiked Online and outspoken climate-change sceptic talks toEOIN BUTLER
Environment
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Mammalian conference 'would have pleased Darwin'ANOTHER LIFE: OUR NEW garden gates have vertical bars so narrowly spaced that even the smallest wandering lamb can’t squeeze through – a feature of some merit in sheep-country. Unfortunately, as I saw the other morning, the gaps won’t let a hare through, either.
Prodigal nature of ecosystem reflected in Dublin BayANOTHER LIFE: POLISHED by a spring tide and last night’s inch of rain, the strand below us mirrors the sky in pale blue – blue and quite bare, but for a thin, black tangle of wrack at the tideline.
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- The carbon question
HORIZONS : Costing Carbon – just a tax or a new economic order? This is the theme of a free public seminar on Thursday at 1pm in the Greenhouse (the old Enfo), Andrews Street, Dublin.
- Horizons
Restored woodlands: The restoration of native woodlands in Ireland was celebrated as Coillte presented the results of a four-year EU Life-funded project in Co Mayo this month.
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