An Irishman helped improve marine safety with some inspiration from corkscrews. Mary Mulvihill reports. Strange but true, it was a blind Irish brick-maker who invented the first successful technique ...

Visitors to Irish lighthouses have more than doubled since 2018 - attracting 350,000 visitors annually and lighthouse tourism ...

DEEP in the suburbs of Greater Manchester stands a 35ft tall lighthouse - and a very eccentric man who built it from scratch. Phil “Barnacle” Austin, 83, worked for years as a management consultant ...