THREE of the five purchasers of the new detached houses at Woodbury have been first-time buyers and one is a certain gentleman, and family guy, rugby star Donnchadh O’Callaghan, who has made his own design tweaks and bespoke rear playroom extension.

BOREENMANNA RD €260,000

Rose Martin is highly impressed with this basement house close to city.

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.