A Cork teenager, who taught herself to draw, is soon to feature as the youngest ever contestant on Sky Arts’ Portrait Artist of The Year.

Audrey's been sorting out Cork people for ages...

Here are just a few of the families.

Sorting out Cork people for ages

'Ask Audrey' has been the newspaper's hysterical agony aunt “for ages, like”.

Attractively gable-fronted with a three-sided bay window and a mix of arched and dormer windows on its top floor, Number 3 Church Hill in Innishannon is a very modern property with a distinctively Victorian style appearance.

Done up to the nines, with some architectural aplomb and, quirkily, with a strong, pink-hued thread running through its decor and interior design, it’s now a very sizeable 3,391 sq ft private family home.

Audrey's been sorting out Cork people for ages.

This luxurious home tucked into one of Cork city’s more secluded areas has been greatly expanded by its owners, writes Tommy Barker.

A CORK suburban development site which sold for a very strong €3.5m less than two years ago, has been quielty returned to the market, at a c €2m mark-up, according to sources.

The Green Party has accused the two main political parties on Cork City Council of kicking the city’s pressing public transport needs down the road after a controversial bus and bike lanes project was rejected.

Sorting out Cork people for ages.

Sorting out Cork people for ages...

I’ve started seeing this delightful senior citizen like myself, I met her on a dating site called All My Own Teeth.

With 700 names registered on the development's website, 40 sales already secured and prices edged up by €5,000 since January, it's a fair conclusion to expect huge viewing interest and volumes of visitors when Cork's Ballincollig development Heathfield finally unveils its first showhouse, and 27 units

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Elle Sorensen and Amy Ahearne’s nerves of steel saw Crescent win back the Munster Schoolgirls Senior Cup title over last year’s vanquishers Mount Mercy at Garryduff via a shoot-out.

Last year, and right through 2019 also, Cork’s Model Farm Road has been and will continue to be quite the busy-bee spot of new house building, assertive pricing and selling, mostly geared at those with a good mid- to upper price level spending discretion.

Sorting out Cork people for ages...

One of Cork city’s longest established suburban bars, the Rendezvous, has changed hands, for close to €1.5 million.

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It was a moment that stood out from the rest and caught people's’ attention.

It needs some work but this much-loved 250-year-old home is full of character, writes Tommy Barker.

A stunning housing scheme with sophistication and quality family homes on Model Farm Road, has it all, reports Catherine Shanahan.

200 jobs are on the way to County Tipperary, while 70 new jobs have been added in Cork.

WILL one of Cork city’s longest established suburban bars have a rendezvous tryst with development fates?

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?

Cork City Council is close to acquiring 106 acres and a period house near the Lee Fields and the Model Farm Road for possible use as a greenway amenity, in a deal valued at more than €2.2m.

The Government must acknowledge the potential of Cork as Ireland’s second city with investment to substantially strengthen our metropolitan profile, Cork Chamber President Bill O'Connell has said.

Facebook has lodged planning documents to facilitate its use of The Capitol offices development in the centre of Cork city.

A popular Cork City bar has closed with the loss of up to 30 full and part-time jobs.

Ask Audrey has been sorting out Cork people for ages.

Ten years on, Catherine McAuliffe reflects on the property crash of 2007, and on its roots in the 1990s.

Tommy Barker admires a well maintained 1950s home in a tranquil setting in Cork’s western suburbs

Tommy Barker says this example of contemporary design, at just 10 years old, benefits from a mature setting on Model Farm Road.

A woman in her 80s has died in a house fire in Cork city.

Tommy Barker says new, upmarket schemes west and east of Cork city will spur resales – and gossip.

Blackwater Motors has expanded in Cork by opening the Volkswagen Van Centre on Model Farm Road.

THE purchaser of a 4.6 acre house development site next to Hilton on the Model Farm Road in Cork city’s suburbs has been confirmed as up-and-coming Munster builder Donal Relihan, of DNR Homes.

Tommy Barker reports on a crisply-built property that offers superb design in a great, western location.

Set to move from war-mongering and munitions provisioning to worship and prayer is the former Gun Store, a relic of Cork’s Ballincollig Gunpowder Mills.

A ready-to-build residential site within a few minutes walk of EMC/Dell in Cork’s Killumney and three miles from Ballincollig has come to market, where average cost per ‘stand’ to build on is running at €55,000. It equates to €563,000 per acre.

Almost a secret location, the Model Farm Road niche called Birchley only comes to the fore once in a blue moon, when a house arrives here for sale.