Seascapes tonight hears from the West Cork island of Dursey, where the famous cable car has been closed for nearly a year.

Norman Freeman has the story behind Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea.

And Independent Galway TD, Catherine Connolly, tells us about how a proposed ban on large trawlers fishing within six miles of the coast has not been acted on by Government. Trawlers taking huge amounts of Sprat form inshore waters is and environmental disaster, she says.