Cape Clear isn’t dead yet — but what will it take to keep it alive?
An aerial view of Cape Clear's north and south harbours. While the island hasn’t died and is not uninhabited, it is yet again at a crossroads. Picture: Neil Michael
Cape clear is dying, person by person, year by year, slowly but very definitely, dying.
So opens the late Bill O’Herlihy’s particularly doom-laden episode of RTE’s current affairs series about the future of the West Cork island.
