Tommy Barker on a Douglas home with three-floors of accommodation.

Limerick City planners have been left red-faced over their objection to two neighbours restoring their roofs to their original red slate colour.

There’s a good, westerly aspect to the back garden of No 5, The Avenue, out in Ballincollig’s Coolroe Heights.

A local authority has called in the country’s top planning referee to decide if two suburban neighbours should get a yellow card over painting their roofs red.

Sunday’s Well, Cork city €325,000

Sq m: 260 (2,800 sq ft)

House for sale, or house for sail?

Spacious suburban home will benefit from new flyovers, ensuring end of traffic bottlenecks, says Tommy Barker

No 5 Fitzgerald Place comes at an affordable price and also has some privacy, Tommy Barker reports

IT’S one of the those villages banded around the greater Cork area and Crookstown has a good road connection to the city.

SPRING’S definitely in the air and the selling time for two period Cork homes with water aspects is nigh.

A HOUSE in one of the finest Georgian squares outside of Dublin, King’s Square in Mitchelstown, has come up for sale.

THE former Backpackers’ Lodge in Schull has taken itself up a notch or two, but hasn’t lost sight of its green credentials.

MENTION Menloe, and Cork’s upwardly mobile house hunters get all misty-eyed: the address sets off alarm bells of covetousness.