There was a changing of the guard at the Kerry GAA Convention in Tralee last night, with Tim Murphy (Brosna) assuming the chair as Patrick O’Sullivan completed his five-year term.

It proved a miserable weekend for Cratloe GAA fans. Their talisman Podge Collins suffered a serious knee injury and their side, the county senior hurling champions, were defeated by Ballyea, in the first game of their title defence at Cusack Park on Saturday.

Kerry County Board chairman Patrick O’Sullivan believes that this year’s All-Ireland SFC semi-final replay showed that big championship games can be held outside Croke Park.

The Kerry GAA chairman has described Colm Cooper’s wait for the Player of the Year award as “mind-boggling”.

KERRY County Convention last night voted unanimously to give the Central Council the power to open Croke Park to non GAA activities after the present agreement with rugby and soccer expires.

THEY made €1 million to €1.5 million during the boom — depending on site size and condition — and one sales asking price even breached €2 million.

THE painted fascias and Scandinavian windows of these houses at Gleann na Rí, Tower, made them stand out from the crowd when built in the early noughties.

THE most expensive driveway ever?

A LUNG-expanding climb from Sunday’s Well Road, via a narrow boreen, leads to a level plateau high above Cork city.

A HORSESHOE of houses off Coach Hill has the official townland designation of Monsfieldstown, but is better known by its Rochestown address.

MINUTES from Cork city centre, Rosehill is a tidy, infill estate off the Old Blackrock road and almost directly across from the South Infirmary.

HIGH-GLOSS kitchens are still rare in the re-sale market, but at number 81, Brightwater, you get that and more.

THE bottom half of the property market may be slackening, but that’s not evident at the upper end where buyers seem immune to swings in the ECB interest rate.

UP CHURCH Hill in Passage West, turn to the right, then climb another bit and you come to Ard Cluain.

DONOUGHMORE covers a wide area to the north of Tower and Blarney in Co Cork and two houses are on the market there now.

A FOUR-BEDROOMED semi, in the pretty country village of Conna, is on the market at the moment with Dermot Lynch of Irish and European.

Rose Martin is captivated by the charms of a rambling family home.

THERE’S Endsleigh Park and then there’s Endsleigh: same name, but different estates on Cork’s salubrious Douglas Road. Endsleigh Park is the older of the two while Endsleigh is a 1960s development which has now matured.

LESS than 11 years old, in a great location and detached — what offers?

NUMBER 25, Thornbury Orchard is a mature, three bed semi on the Rochestown road and it comes in very good condition, says selling agent, Dermot Lynch.

BRIGHT, spacious, with a decent site and a good location, number 2, Landsborough Gardens has it all - and all you need is €520,000.

Albert Road is five minutes from Cork city centre and an attractive house has come on the market there.

GOOD house — good location and all for a guide price of €330,000 through Dermot Lynch of Irish and European. Number 12, Sandymount Drive, Glasheen, Cork city, is a classic, three-bed semi with bonus points like a south-facing garden and green area to the front, as well as proximity to the UCC.

THERE’S a lot of house on offer for €260,000, with a Blackrock Road Cork address, at 34 Dundanion Court.

A DETACHED bungalow Carriglee on Carr’s Hill outside Douglas in Cork is on a valuable one-third of an acre site, and with a guide price of €275,0000 could be bought as is, or invested in further to maximise site potential.

OODLES of space and bedrooms, mature gardens and greenery cloaking its walls, a top-notch address — the only problem with 6 Knockrea Park in Cork’s inner Douglas is the affordability factor.

A DETACHED house at Rochestown Rise, just off the Rochestown Road in Cork, is on the market with Dermot Lynch of Irish and European and comes with a ‘sun-drenched’ rear garden.

By Rose Martin

KILTEGAN Lawn in Rochestown, Co Cork, is one of those estates that always sells well.