ALTHOUGH it still looks like a relatively modest-sized bungalow from the front, this property at Roxborough in Midleton is now an extra-spacious split-level house. Reduced this week from €395,000 to €380,000, it has 2,680sq ft of accommodation which includes four sitting rooms and five bedrooms as well as a basement.

Former Tipperary All-Star Liam Cahill was ratified as the new Waterford senior hurling manager on a two-year term, with the option of a third, at last night’s county board meeting in Dungarvan.

THERE’S a robust build quality - and both house and site-purchase options – at Clogheen, a detached and quite sizeable five-bed family home, in the very heart of Douglas’s Hettyfield.

Tommy Barker hears this three-bed 1,140 sq ft, after a single story add-on, has a full back wall of glass in the modern kitchen/diner

Cork city centre is at the other, bottom end of the street — but in some ways, the knock-out private home and eyrie that is No 160 Blarney Street might as well be out in the pure countryside, writes Tommy Barker.

This Blarney Street property has a patio, a garden and is close to city centre.

A restored 1800s mill structure and a newly built lodge combine charm with comfort, says Tommy Barker.

The owners have ensured No 175 Blarney St is no traditional terrace house, writes Trish Dromey.

The family of a woman who was stabbed more than 100 times by a man suffering a psychotic episode has described their shock at the manner of her death while she was a patient in a psychiatric hospital.

A resident at a psychiatric hospital in Waterford says she witnessed a fellow resident being repeatedly stabbed by the man accused of murder.

Tommy Barker discovers a four-bed home that comes with a second three-bed guest bungalow and stables.

RTÉ journalist Conor Brophy has a secret weapon: the power nap. On the days he is working on Morning Ireland, he’s up at 4.45am and will usually find time to squeeze in a reboot snooze.

Mel Gibson isn't an anti-Semite, his long-time pal Terry Hayes insists.

Sq m: 293 (3,140 sq ft)

We scan a selection of trading up homes from around the country.

THERE’S a lovely modern take on the traditional two-storey Irish country farmhouse here at this one-off family home in Cork’s Grenagh — so it’s no surprise to find it’s had an architect’s input all along the way.

Dunmanway, Co Cork €130,000

Three-bed Douglas semi in turnkey condition boasts extra large garden

Riverside provides an ideal location for those who want to escape the city, but maintain some of the convenience, writes Rose Martin

THE building boom went south in the Sixties and Seventies in Cork city, which left the old northern suburbs slightly out of favour.

ONE day you’re a rock ‘head’, the next you’re a chippie in a hard hat.

THE house is probably worth less, as it stands, than the ground it stands on at Sunville, in or above Cork’s Glounthane.

YOU won’t get too many almost new four-bed detached homes in and around Cork city for the €330,000 price mark - and even fewer will have the finish of 10, Pembroke Heights in Passage West.

A HOUSE up for sale in Midleton’s very successful Castleredmond development has an unusual bonus — the option of taking on the rent roll from the existing tenant if it is going to be bought by an investor or a buyer not yet ready to make a house move.

THE steady march of re-gentrification continues at St Luke’s Cross in Cork city, where large older houses are going back from years of flatland habitation to private residential usage.

OFFERS of €160,000 are being sought for a three bedroomed mid-terraced property at 14 O’Connell Street, Blackpool in Cork.

Neil Lennon has joined Aaron Hughes on Northern Ireland's casualty list ahead of Wednesday's World Cup qualifier with Bulgaria.

Jim Magilton should be fit for Northern Ireland's World Cup qualifier with Bulgaria even though he sat out training.