The owners of a family business once rooted in Cork’s historic financial heart — until the property and housing boom pushed them to the suburbs — have all but returned to their spiritual home, opening the way for a tenant to take over their lease in Bessboro.

THERE’S a reassuring ‘heft’ to the look of houses in Cork’s suburban Temple Vale — they are as robust and solid inside as they appear from outside, across their square-faced, assymetric front facades.

Tommy Barker wants to award a medal to this handsome, extensive family home in a highly-desirable Cork suburb.

The annual office party is where many a career has gone to die. Pat Fitzpatrick looks at what can you do to limit the potential damage.

Three-year-old Zac Higgins, who was seriously injured in a hit-and-run earlier this year, will open Cork on Ice this Friday, November 22 at the ice rink on Centre Park Road.

Tommy Barker hears 200 people viewed a selection of three show homes at the launch of phase two at Crawford

St Patrick's Bridge in Cork city will be closed to vehicular traffic this weekend due to Irish Water works.

Cork’s landmark Arbutus Lodge is spacious and packed with original features. It is also Pure Cork, writes Tommy Barker.

A 1960s former office block in one of Cork’s most desirable residential areas is to undergo a €10m conversion into a local authority downsizing housing project.

Tommy Barker takes a leisurely wander around a smart one-off family home with a unique intergenerational link

A young man who was never in trouble before threatened to stick a kitchen knife in gardaí and warned that he would take 20 officers.

Two-year-old Zac Higgins incurred serious injuries when he ran onto the road while playing with a ball near Castle Meadows on the Skehard Road in Mahon in Cork city at about 4pm on Monday.

The father of a toddler who was left with serious injuries after a hit-and-run in Cork has said that he is “absolutely blown away” by the support from friends and family.

2-year-old Zac Higgins suffered a broken collarbone and shoulder blade, and a bleed to the brain after being struck by a car while playing at about 3.50pm on Monday in Castle Meadows estate on the Skehard Road in Mahon.

A male teenager arrested in connection with a serious hit-and-run in Cork was released from Garda custody this morning.

Gardaí have arrested a juvenile in his late teens today in connection with a hit-and-run incident in Cork yesterday.

A toddler was left seriously injured after a hit-and-run in Cork City yesterday afternoon.

A three-year-old boy has been seriously injured in a hit-and-run in Cork city.

Already immaculately turned out, the new owners of this Blackrock showhouse won’t need to worry about decorating for a while, writes Tommy Barker.

Audrey has been sorting out Cork people for ages

A home in a desirable part of Cork exceeded price expectations last time it sold, and has been upgraded since then, writes Tommy Barker.

Gardaí have been warning the public about parking restrictions this week ahead of the Munster quarter-final at Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

The former home of composer John Gibson hits all the right notes, says Tommy Barker

Cork-based Atlantia provides clinical research for companies on the health benefits of their products

The demolition of the former ABODE building on Skehard Road, Mahon Cork has taken place.

The duplex No 30 is for resale, with €245,00 sought by estate agent Jeremy Murphy, and that’s for one of the largest, a three-bed of c 1,200 sq ft.

The convenience of its Skehard Road location in Blackrock, is certain to attract good viewings for the three-bed end of terrace 5 Old Cliffe Park. 

This is a modernised, detached house with good-sized, bright reception rooms and a private garden.

Bus Éireann has bowed to public pressure and tweaked changes on the Cork bus service linking Apple’s sprawling European HQ and Mahon Point.

Blackrock Business Park, the former Motorola site in Cork’s booming Mahon suburb which last sold when vacated back in 2007 for €22m, has been put back for sale for €11.2m. 

Management from Bus Éireann will today meet with protesters following a blockade the firm claims caused major inconvenience yesterday to early-morning passengers in Cork.

Tommy Barker steps into a secluded one-off home with a sunny disposition and super quality build and finish.

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There’s practically a new home feel to the interior of 3 Douglas Hall Mews, despite the fact it’s coming up on 30 years of age: it’s because its owners did it all up from top to toe, when they moved in just five years ago.

No 64, Castle Meadows, off the Skehard Road, measures 1,750 sq ft after a two-storey add-on and is priced at €265,000, says Tommy Barker.

Many hundreds of apartments got built in the ‘noughties’ in and around Cork city and suburbs, but only a fraction of those were designed for full-time, owner occupation.

Will we ever learn? The proposed shoehorning of the new events centre into the constricted site of the old Beamish brewery must be one of the most ill-advised decisions made by the planners and burghers of Cork City Council.

AS Nama this week brings 588 apartments for sale for €116 million in Dublin, aimed at REITS and overseas investment groups, offers on a smaller scale of apartment blocks maybe of more interest to private buyers conscious of the end of year expiry date of the CGT exemption for investments held for seven years.

The builders are coming to Cork’s Skehard Road, following on the €850,000 auction sale last week of a house on 1.25 acres there, and with a dozen or two dozen new homes now expected to replace that old five-bed dwelling and its garden. 

THE €255,000 pricetag is within the reach of the better-off first-time buyers, and No 9, Douglas Hall Mews, will receive first-time-buyer attention, as well as catching the eye of traders-down.

The sale at public auction this week of a 1.25 acre house-building site in Cork for €845,000 shows builders are back to town — and bidding for sites.

It’s big enough, it’s detached, the house’s location within Beaumont is good - and the €330,000 guide price isn’t going to dampen enthusiasm either on 50 Ashleigh Gardens.

As ideal for traders-down as for starters-out is the ground floor apartment at 1 Pinecourt, on Cork’s Church Road, Blackrock and just off the Skehard Road.

Gardaí have ruled out a link between a shooting on the southside of Cork City early yesterday, and a family feud elsewhere on the southside.