Never mind the cold snap — Ireland’s only wildlife park is turning up the heat and moving indoors.

The first of a two-stage restoration project on one of Ireland’s most distinctive monuments has seen the dome capping Youghal’s Clock Gate completely restored.

MORE than 200 community associations across Cork city have been offered free one-tonne bags of salt to help them cope with freezing weather this winter.

LAST week’s feature on the Castlelake scheme at Carrigtwohill, Co Cork, referred to the Cascade scheme of apartments.

SHE has sold numbers 3, 4 and 6 and now Pacelli Nolan is looking to add number 2 Westwood Gardens to her list of four out of a total of six in Kinsale.

THIS is a Kinsale property through and through. Designed by Richard Rainey and built by local consortium, MMD Construction, whose first outing this was, Westwood Gardens is an attractive and low-scale scheme with a Scandinavian touch.

FOLLOWING a steady start to 2003, demand for new apartments in Munster grew significantly throughout the year with particular interest in properties situated in Limerick, Cork and Waterford city centres.

WITH the new by-pass plan for Fermoy and a new River Blackwater crossing inching ahead, a new house development close to its path will proves the adage that development follows roads — and in this case precedes them.

AN BRUACH, at the Halfway, Ballinhassig, in Co Cork, is on the brink of being sold out — in just three days.