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 ...

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, ...

A former lighthouse keeper has been honoured at a commemorative event marking the 40th anniversary of the 1979 Fastnet race disaster. A portrait of Gerald Butler by Welsh artist Dan Llywelyn Hall was ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nineteen people died in a freak storm in the Irish Sea in 1979. Lightkeeper Gerald Butler, next to the portrait that honours him (Dan Llywelyn Hall/PA) A former lighthouse keeper has been honoured at ...

THIS bizarre optical illusion shows an Irish lighthouse ‘rocking back and forth’ as waves crash into it during Storm Dennis. The video captured at the weekend shows high seas battering Fastnet ...

The 1979 Fastnet Race began in what were calm conditions - conditions that were not expected to present a great challenge for the 303 boats taking part in the 600-mile voyage. The track would take the ...

A series of paintings and poems will be unveiled at Cork's Cape Clear Museum on Sunday in honour of those who lost their lives in the 1979 Fastnet disaster, 40 years ago. Tragedy struck midway through ...

Today, thousands of people will troop past it. On a jagged tooth of shale rock a few miles off Ireland’s south coast, the lighthouse is deserving of the utmost respect, for its beauty, for its ...

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