Love in Ballycove

One fake ring, one broken heart—and a second chance at love.

Big-city marketing star Tara Quinn returns to windswept Ballycove only to inherit a dilapidated cliff-top cottage—and the memories of the teenage sweetheart she left behind. Local carpenter Cillian Byrne offers a daring solution: announce a pretend engagement so nosy villagers, greedy...

One daring design, one cautious surfer, and a love painted across Ballycove’s summer skies.

For muralist Niamh O’Shea, Ballycove’s first Arts & Waves Festival is her dream canvas... if the town will let her splash a thirty-foot sea-dragon across its iconic cliffs. Former pro surfer Rory Donnelly, now owner of the Board & Bike shop, sees...

One harvest fair, one looming goodbye—and a friendship on the edge of forever.

Autumn paints Ballycove gold just as primary-school teacher Aoife Flynn throws herself into planning the village harvest fair. Her best friend since nappies, Finn Murphy—paramedic and dare-devil cliff-rescue volunteer—steps in to help, hiding the letter in his pocket:...

First love returns, autumn leaves, and a widowed bookseller’s heart blooms again!

Fifty-five-year-old bookseller Fiona Doyle treasures quiet October mornings in Ballycove’s Curlew Bookshop, shelves scented with peat smoke and stories. When Seán McGrath—her teenage sweetheart turned celebrated historian—strides in needing space to archive village...

A grumpy pub owner and a sunshine principal—one Christmas wedding neither planned.
Pub owner Seamus Gallagher prefers peace, pints, and zero tinsel. Primary-school principal Sorcha Ní Riain runs on lists, glitter glue, and Christmas cheer. When Father Colm wins a radio contest that funds exactly one Christmas Eve wedding and Ballycove votes the...

A single dad, a wandering librarian and Christmas lights bright enough to heal lonely hearts!

Lonely lighthouse keeper Declan Hayes keeps Ballycove’s beam cutting through November gales, yet grief still clouds his days. Enter Bríd Callahan, the new librarian whose mobile book van and radiant hope make even the wild cliffs feel like home. Her...