The response by Minister for the Environment, Alan Kelly, to the magnificent turnout at the water charges protest in Dublin, has done much to galvanise the movement.

There’s a stealthily growing appreciation of Modernist architecture in Ireland, and abroad, and now another chance to buy into an award-winning 1960s housing scheme in Cork’s Blackrock has come along.

VERY ’60s in style and layout, Dundanion Court won an award for the former city architect, Neil Hegarty, shortly after these Blackrock houses were first built.