WITH a bullet-proof setting like Cork’s Boreenmanna Road, and a location just a kilometre from City Hall, sales of new houses could be started at any time — irrespective of the state of the property market.

THE visit of the Minister for Defence, Michael Smith, to the Irish troops serving with the UN peacekeeping mission in Liberia is a timely opportunity to reflect on the contribution the Irish army has made so far in Liberia.