WHAT’s the collective noun for multiple medics? A delivery of doctors, or an outbreak of obstetricians? A coven of consultants? Can any location get closer to the action than bustling College Road itself?

The National Hunt season is hitting full stride now, and thus this is a good weekend for us to begin to unwrap some of our best young horses of last season.

It might be a bit old-school, but this four-bed semi-d near UCC on Cork’s College Road, called Glenlough, shows very well and will impress at open viewings from noon today.

Tommy Barker visits a plum buy within a stroll of Cork city centre close to UCC.

Sq m: 149 (1,600 sq ft)

With five bedrooms in a bright spacious Orchard Road property, plus beautiful gardens, what’s not to like, asks Tommy Barker.

No 6 The Grove is tucked away off College Road, Cork, and is priced at €450,000, writes Tommy Barker

A teenage girl who suffered a shoulder injury at birth yesterday settled her High Court action for €380,000.

Know the way some houses unexpectedly grow on you?

A SIDE garden site, with full planning for a detached house, has swiftly gone ‘sale agreed’ on Cork city’s Orchard Road, as a do-er upper a few doors away gets a price cut and change of selling agent.

A PLUM garden site on which to build, in one of Cork city’s best western suburbs, Orchard Road is for sale. It comes new to market, just as rival and adjoining sites across Cork city on a former crab apple orchard also get a renewed sales push (see below).

IT’S still on the ‘select’ list, despite being among some of the busiest thoroughfares on the western side of Cork city.

A DEVOTED Filipina maid inherited €3 million from her late employer after more than 20 years of service, a newspaper said yesterday.

A 29-year-old man suffered gunshot wounds to both legs after he was attacked by a gang in Strabane, police said today.

A RARE offering indeed — a College Road, Cork city site with full planning permission in place for a three-storey house of nearly 2,000 sq ft — is for sale.

THE families and friends of Irish victims of the Air France disaster were yesterday coming to terms with their loss after the first wreckage from the plane was confirmed found in the Atlantic.

Five men are still being held in Cork in connection with three separate drug seizures in the city over the past 24 hours.

Gardaí in Cork have seized €80,000 worth of cannabis following two separate operations in the city.

Gardaí in Cork have arrested a man in his fifties after recovering €50,000 worth of ecstasy on the outskirts of the city.

Gardaí in Cork have seized €80,000 worth of cannabis following two separate operations in the city.

MOVES are afoot to protect one of the most enduring gifts Ireland gave the British Empire.

A Philippine maid has been arrested and will be charged with murder after the chopped-up body of another foreign domestic worker was discovered stuffed into bags on Singapore’s main shopping strip and at a popular park, police said today.

Two men were remanded in custody today charged with the gangland murder of a man shot outside a Dublin prison less than a month ago.

DUNORLAN, in Cork's Laburnum Park, is the fourth large property to bookend this spring's top end market releases in the western suburbs.

ONCE part of the estate of the bottling and mineral water family, the Jennings, who owned all of the lands around and including, Brookfield House, Orchard Road is now one of the prime real estate areas of the city.

SCALPELS at the ready: Cork’s medical fraternity may be about to do battle over a few choice houses coming up for sale on sought-after Orchard Road.

WITH the last house sale in The Grove, off Orchard Road, Cork, making €540,000 last year, buyers coming to look at the latest arrival on the market, no 4 The Grove might want to keep that figure in mind.

By Tommy Barker

THE main house, Brookfield, made headlines in a major sale in the 1990s, and now the lodge looks to follow suit.

THE shortage of good second-hand houses is helping to underpin the strong current prices being achieved.

A 28-YEAR-OLD living at home with his parents appeared at Dublin District Court yesterday on charges related to having €400,000 worth of cocaine in his possession.

With million pound, as opposed to euro, properties surrounding it, its no wonder there is a queue of viewers for a detached house in a small development off Orchard Road.

IT is Number One in more ways than one. The first house to come up for resale in Cork's most upmarket residential development Lindville has hit the market and is set to make a stir amongst those who lost out the first time.

DEEP in sleepy August the news of a million pound sale last week shook up auctioneering circles in Cork.

Parents and government officials in Singapore are voicing concern over what they say is increasing indolence among the country’s pampered teenagers.