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2 years

The only bank @AIBIreland in #Castletownbere is going cashless. The biggest fishing port in Ireland, home to two island communities and now no access to a bank. The Beara Peninsula is one of the furthest places from Dublin, once again there’s no support for #RuralIreland

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2 years

Bringing the Christmas tree home island style #BereIsland 🎄

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2 years

An odd craft to see off the coast of south-west Ireland! #MarineTraffic

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1 year

French warship at the entrance of Bantry Bay again.

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2 years

Last #BereIsland sunset of 2022 and last sunset in Western Europe of 2022 #NewYearsEve

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9 months

Bantry Bay starting to fill up with the foreign fishing fleet taking shelter from #StormIsha and more on their way in. The first time the bay has been full this storm season, always a sign of a bad storm when they head for shelter. Hatches are well and truly battened down here!

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2 years

Collected the turkey, last of the food shopping done and sailing home for an island Christmas🎄 #BereIsland #IslandLife

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1 year

Watching the #BlueMoon rising over Bantry Bay this evening.

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29 days

Fishing fleets heading for shelter in Castletownbere ahead of tomorrow’s forecast.

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5 years

It’s a beautiful morning on #BereIsland - waiting for the ferry, heading over to Castletownbere for the weekly food shop #islandlockdown

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7 years

Stocking up on essentials ahead of the #beastfromtheast

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3 years

Collected the turkey, got my booster shot and now sailing home for Christmas #BereIsland #islandlife

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4 years

It’s always a sign of bad weather on the way when the Spanish and French fishing fleets head for shelter in Bantry Bay.

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3 months

There’s not many bus services with a view like this, on the 232 local link service from Castletownbere to Allihies, via the Dursey Sound.

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10 days

Weekly shop done, all stocked up ahead of #StormAshley - a wet and windy crossing heading back to #BereIsland this morning.

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10 months

Christmas shopping done, turkey on board and sailing home for Christmas #BereIsland #islandlife

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5 years

Last time there was an armada this size in #BantryBay in December was 1796, French that time, Spanish today #StormAtiyah

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5 years

Weekly shop done in #Castletownbere stocking up on supplies ahead of #StormCiara - heading home to #BereIsland now to batten down the hatches!

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1 year

A perfect morning on the Beara Peninsula #BereIsland

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4 years

Day 1 of #100daysofwalking - walk to the #BereIsland standing stone. Dates to the Bronze Age and is said to mark the exact centre of the island.

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2 years

View from the garden just now, French warship sailing past #BereIsland on her way up Bantry Bay.

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1 year

Hunter Moon rising over Bantry Bay tonight.

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1 year

An August evening on Bantry Bay.

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11 months

Bringing the Christmas tree home island style #BereIsland #islandlife

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2 years

Last day of Christmas #BereIsland The gorse is starting to flower, the days are getting longer, spring is coming.

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5 years

Full moon over #BantryBay tonight #supermoon

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2 years

It’s snowing fairly heavy on #BereIsland now and starting to settle #sneachta

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11 months

My Chinese takeaway is waiting patiently for the ferry! When you live on an island it’s handy having a sister who commutes to the mainland every day for work and can bring the odd takeaway home 😁 #BereIsland #islandlife

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3 years

Bantry Bay already starting to fill up with boats heading for shelter #StormBarra

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5 months

A few French warships off the south-west coast this morning, they seem to have missed Bantry Bay this time round!

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3 years

Beautiful evening on the Beara Peninsula.

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1 year

Sun setting on the Beara Peninsula just before 10pm on the #longestday

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2 months

Last sunset of August, last sunset of summer 2024 #BereIsland

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4 years

Weekly food shop in Castletownbere done, heading home to our island in the sun #BereIsland #islandlife

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2 years

A great surprise today to see my article on Bere Island and Argentina in the @SouthernStarIRL featured on Argentinean news channel @AmericaTV this morning - a West Cork paper with worldwide reach!

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4 years

Morning at Lonehort Harbour #BereIsland

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4 years

The gorse is in bloom, Lonehort Harbour #BereIsland

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1 year

Looking out from #BereIsland at the lights of Castletownbere.

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3 years

Sun just setting on the Beara Peninsula #BereIsland

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5 years

No more ferries to or from #BereIsland now until next Tuesday. We’re cut off from the outside world and it feels great! #StayHomeSaveLives

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7 months

There’s already very high seas off #BereIsland - everything is battened down, candles and torches at the ready, and a couple of Easter eggs still left to get us through it! #StormKathleen #IslandLife

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4 years

View from @BereIslandFerry this morning. Heading over to Castletownbere for a food shop #BereIsland #Lockdown3

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2 months

Where else would you want to be on a glorious September morning #BereIsland

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6 months

The #fullmoon rising over Bantry Bay tonight.

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4 years

View from today’s office, the #BereIsland standing stone. Dates to the Bronze Age and is said to mark the exact centre of the island. Working on something for @HeritageHubIRE and couldn’t have picked a more perfect day.

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7 months

Easter on #BereIsland - one day there’s snow on the hills, the next it’s blue skies and sunshine #islandlife

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1 year

Watching the world go by, 5pm on a Friday evening island style #BereIsland

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4 years

Dawn at the #BereIsland standing stone, the stone is said to mark the exact centre of the island. Legend has it that a giant on the mainland threw the stone at the Cailleach Beara/The Old Hag of Beara, but it missed and landed on the island #KnowYour5K #5kmfromhome

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5 years

Tall ship Danmark sailing past Sheep’s Head this morning on her way into Bantry.

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3 years

Sunset at the Martello Tower #BereIsland

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6 months

May Day at the #BereIsland Standing Stone #Bealtaine

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3 months

British border patrol vessel HMC Valiant docked in Castletownbere today. The last time a ship of the British Crown was in Berehaven was in 1938. In September that year the handover of the Treaty Port of Fort Berehaven, Bere Island took place.

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1 year

Calm before #StormAgnes - a beautiful evening on #BereIsland

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1 month

Had to go to the city today, such a glorious day so we came home the scenic route via Gougane Barra.

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4 years

Great day today, bringing Mum across to the mainland to get her first vaccine #BereIsland #IrelandVaccine

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4 years

Last night of #islandlockdown #BereIsland It’s been a surreal few months, but we’ve been so lucky to live on a place like this for lockdown. Looking forward to getting back to some form of normal, but still a bit apprehensive of what’s ahead of us. #Phase3

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1 year

Calm before the storm. Heading home to #BereIsland after the weekly food shop in Castletownbere. #StormAntoni

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2 years

Summer solstice sunrise at the island’s end #BereIsland #SummerSolstice2022

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7 months

View from the office this morning, snow on Hungry Hill and the Caha Mountains #BereIsland

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1 year

Monday evening walk after work on the Ardaragh Road #BereIsland

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5 years

Finished work for the day so out for a walk to Scart Strand #BereIsland - a little piece of heaven on earth #workingfromhome #2kmfromhome

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2 months

Stunning red sky over Lawrence Cove #BereIsland tonight.

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5 months

On a day like this there’s no better place to be #BereIsland #islandlife

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1 year

Sun setting on the last day of summer 2023 #BereIsland

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4 years

102 years ago today sailors from the US Navy inscribed their names on a rock just outside Rerrin Village #BereIsland . The US Navy was stationed in Berehaven during WW1, while protecting the sea lanes off Southern Ireland #KnowYour5K

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1 year

View from the office this morning, the worst of #StormDebi seems to have passed over #BereIsland all OK here and thankfully no damage.

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7 months

Wave watching on the south side of #BereIsland #StormKathleen

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5 months

Moon rising over Bantry Bay tonight.

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7 months

Sailing home this evening with the moon rising over #BereIsland #IslandLife

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3 years

225 years ago today General Hoche & Theobald Wolfe Tone sailed a French Armada into Bantry Bay. By 1805 the British admiralty had built this Martello Tower at Cloughland Hill #BereIsland along with 3 other towers on the island to defend against any further invasions of the bay.

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5 years

Sun setting on the Ardaragh Road #BereIsland

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1 year

Evening walk #BereIsland

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4 years

Beautiful morning on #BereIsland

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2 months

Friday evening looking across at the hills of Beara #islandlife #BereIsland

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26 days

October is off to a good start on the Beara Peninsula #islandlife

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3 years

The same view looking out from #BereIsland taken today and in the early 1900s with the British fleet anchored in Berehaven Harbour.

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10 months

Some amazing starry skies over #BereIsland these frosty nights.

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10 months

A huge thank you to @ESBNetworks for restoring power to #BereIsland the first thing to come back on was the sacred heart lamp which has been in the house since the 1950s!

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6 months

A perfect May morning on #BereIsland - sea pinks and Bantry Bay #islandlife

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1 year

Watching the #SummerSolstice sunrise at the island’s end #BereIsland

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4 years

Sunday morning walk #BereIsland

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9 months

A January morning on #BereIsland

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4 years

Beautiful evening at Lonehort Harbour #BereIsland

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8 months

There’s not a particularly bad forecast down this way tonight, but Bantry Bay is starting fill up with foreign fishing vessels taking shelter. Maybe they know something we don’t!

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1 month

Harvest moon rising over Bantry Bay tonight.

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4 years

For the day that’s in it, morning view from a #BereIsland Martello Tower #Bloomsday

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5 years

Last sunset of 2019, and the decade over #BereIsland and #BantryBay #lastsunsetof2019

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3 years

A January day on #BereIsland #islandlife

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10 months

Christmas food shop done, a quick pit stop in MacCarthy’s bar #Castletownbere while waiting for the ferry 🎄

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4 years

Sun setting over #BereIsland and the hills of Beara.

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2 years

Just came across this photo online of my Dad’s old boat St Patrick sailing by Long Walk, Galway. Dad died this month 21 yrs ago, and 3 months later the St Patrick was wrecked in a storm off West Cork. I like to think he’s still sailing the high seas above on her.

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8 months

Off for the weekly food shop in Castletownbere and taking the scenic route to the ferry this morning #BereIsland #islandlife

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8 months

It’s a fairly wild trip home today after the weekly shopping trip to the mainland #BereIsland #islandlife

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4 years

Fantastic whale watching trip with #WildAtlanticFishNTrips from #BereIsland this morning. Absolutely amazing to be able to get so close to these beautiful creatures around Sheeps Head & Dunmanus Bay, lots of dolphins in the area as well. So lucky to have all this on our doorstep.