Eoin Warner sails a 140-year-old Galway Hooker out into the Atlantic to showcase the extraordinary wild magic of Ireland's western islands, from basking sharks off Inishtrahull to the white-tailed ...

a breathtaking 2,500 km coastal route along the west coast of Ireland. The island, which is reachable by car ferry and road, or bus or train from Killarney, receives around 20,000 visitors annually.

per hour were recorded early in the morning near the Galway coast in the west, the island’s Met Eireann said on X. The previous record, of 182 kilometres per hour, was recorded in 1945, it said.

These two islands off the western coast of Europe offer a lesson ... post globalized world order. Ireland has been described by the Economist magazine as a ‘diplomatic superpower’ – I ...