My son’s bucket and spade lie forgotten on Fountainstown Beach while he goes off throwing stones in the water.

Tir na nOg is the house on the right of this photo. It’s a house that Colaiste Ciaran, an Irish summer school on the island, rents during the summer and where I spent a number of weeks years and years ago. The long, low building attached to the left is a canteen. An Oige have…

Please Recycle Empty beer can on the rocky beach at Church Bay, Co. Cork.