Michael Collins’s vision of Ireland as a centre of economic excellence has been compared by many commentators both to our Celtic Tiger excess and our current woes, writes John Daly

A MAN was impaled on railings after falling from a monument in Co Cork which marks the place where War of Independence hero Michael Collins was shot dead in 1922.

AN investigation was launched in Kinsale, Co Cork, after a truck driver was crushed to death while handling newly-harvested grain yesterday.

CASH-STRAPPED businesses in Kinsale, Co Cork, have been warned they face court action if they fail to cough up their rates after the town council revealed more than €1.8 million remains outstanding.

Finance Minister Brian Lenihan will this afternoon become the first ever Fianna Fáil Minister to deliver the oration at the annual Michael Collins memorial ceremony at Béal na mBláth.

I WAS tempted to check the date of your edition that carried the report from Senator Liam Twomey (‘Lenihan slammed as speaker for Collins commemoration, August 12’) objecting to a “Fianna Fáil minister like Brian Lenihan” giving the oration at the Michael Collins commemoration in Béal na mBláth next Sunday.

BRIAN LENIHAN should not address the annual Michael Collins commemoration in Béal na mBláth because Fianna Fáil’s predecessors murdered Mr Collins, a Fine Gael senator has said.

THEY have stood on their high vantage point since the late 1940s and the quality of the build, the generosity of the sites have made these former County Council houses at Scilly, Kinsale, highly desirable.

BUILT as part of the Pallastown Estate, this cute and fully renovated property at Belgooly, Co Cork has the best of all worlds.

COMING up fast behind last month’s launch of the Anchorage is an adjoining property, Kinure, in Oysterhaven, Co Cork, which is set fair to sell at €2.2 million through Dermot Collins of SWS Property Services, Kinsale.

IT’S not often you get two good properties in Kinsale up for sale at the same time - and across the road from one another. SWS Property Services, Kinsale, are selling two houses in Ardbrack.

GETTING a house for sale in Summercove is rare enough, but getting one with a view of Charles Fort and the sea is an even bigger coup.

PBC Cork 11, CBC Cork 8