THE owners of this aptly-named one-off home called Woodview, or 25A, in the long matured Rochestown Rise development in Cork, barely needed the Grand Stand view they had of its construction, as they lived next door and were building anew last year in their former back garden.

Jim Stack came across veteran architect Peter Legge, at the RIAI/Simon Open Door event in 2012, at a time when Legge & Associates’ reconstruction of two conjoined stacked stone cottages in Connemara, was causing enormous interest.

A jury in a fatal hit-and- run trial was yesterday shown more than three hours of CCTV footage tracking a large, grey, vehicle suspected of being involved in the incident.

The Star Bar is known as a sports and live music bar, with a price guide of €275,000.

Size: Sq m 71 (770 sq ft)

IT really is all about the bride for Marcella Ware — she’s just about to relocate from the West Waterford home she built on the banks of the River Bride, moving with her husband Fergal to be closer to the sea and to her Bijou Bridal business in Tramore.

Michael Fleming was elected IFA farm forestry chairman in April, representing private farm foresters who own 47% of Ireland’s afforested land.

ESB Novusmodus is to invest €20 million in an Irish wind energy developer which builds and runs on-site turbines for large businesses who are looking to reduce energy costs.

THEY thought about moving, they thought about going all contemporary on makeover and extension front – and eventually this couple of practicing architects went the seemingly modest route for their own family home.

WE’RE being told, everyday by the Government and the EU, that “green” is the way to go, not only in reducing carbon emissions, but also in job-creation.

ALL the hard work has been done here in delivering a “Grand Designs” type of one-off house, in a great woodland and stream-side setting.

ENERGY conscious firms are in line for multi-million euro savings following a €60 million investment from an Irish renewable energy firm.

FOR Conor O’Mahony and the newer members of the Tipperary hurling team, meeting Cork in Páirc Uí Chaoimh next Sunday will mean the fulfilment of a dream.

IN TODAY’S uncertain world, there’s the comfort of three Christmas reliables — groaning credit cards, frustrated shoppers and the enjoyable mayhem of the annual basketball blitz in Castleisland.

YOU get ‘all the fruit’ thrown in, at Glebe House Gardens, an upmarket niche townhouse scheme behind the architectural timepiece Emmet Square, in West Cork’s Clonakilty.

Tommy Barker says no 8 The Circle proves you can’t judge a book by its cover.

Tommy Barker says early bookers can get the benefits of an interior designer with Ballyard scheme.

AN unfair dismissals case in which two Polish workers said they were driven by taxis to Cork Airport and handed one-way plane tickets back to Poland was settled yesterday.