Tommy Barker views a fine Co Cork home

There’s direct water access from this upriver, Kinsale area home. Tommy Barker slips by    

The State spent €380,000 in 11 months maintaining the decommissioned LÉ Aisling, it has emerged.

Latest: The auctioneer who oversaw the sale of the LÉ Aisling seven weeks ago has claimed he was instructed by the Department of Defence to take the deal.

The Dutch ship broker at the centre of the LÉ Aisling re-sale controversy said he is “testing the market” by seeking €683,000 for the former Irish naval ship he snapped up at public auction for just €110,000 two months ago.

A Dutch businessman has picked up decommissioned Naval Service ship LÉ Aisling for the bargain basement price of €110,000.

A Beara Peninsula home offers privacy and luxury in a prized coastal setting, writes Tommy Barker.

New uses, or even owners, for what was once Cork city’s largest employment base, the Dwyer family’s Sunbeam Wolsey textile plant are being sought.

The mystery buyer who paid €70,000 for a yacht, which was at the centre of one of the largest ever drug hauls in the country, will need to spend at least €50,000 more to refurbish it.

Hungry Hill Cottage looks out onto sloping wooded countryside and across Bantry Bay to Bere Island.

Tommy Barker encounters a house with bright features to enlighten the viewer.

A luxury yacht which was seized last September carrying €80m of cocaine is to be auctioned off by the State.

TWO big Kinsale offers come to market independently this week for receivers — one being 95 acres of spectacularly-sited land at Pregane, next to where a €200m golf resort development was proposed a decade ago.

The firm that operates the four-star Rochestown Park Hotel in Cork increased its earnings in 2013 by 4% to €1.37m.

For a club with a small catchment area, Ilen Rovers are well used to punching above their weight.

The naval patrol boat LÉ Aoife is to be decommissioned this month and sold off, through public auction, by the end of February.

This year was the year of the Big Ask, but of a lot less delivery, in the multi-million euro house sale league.

Dundaniel House, Innishannon, Price: €1.8m

Come November/December, typically there are very few houses (especially those with high price aspirations, or in the country homes market) come for sale. 

This Cork period home has a pretty perch — with precious parking space aplenty, writes Tommy Barker.

Sq m 284 (3,000 sq ft)

Belgooly, Cork €479,000

Marfield House sits on 390 acres and has planning for a golf course and hotel.

Sq m: 370 (4,000 sq ft)

The firm that operates the four-star Rochestown Park hotel in Cork went further into the red in 2012 to record losses of €6.4m.

Size: 470 (5,020 sq ft)

Location: Castletownshend, Cork

A Nigerian-born businessman toasted success with pints of Beamish last night after acquiring a former navy ship for the knockdown price of €320,000.

Location: Clonmel

A period house with multiple features is a real beauty, writes Tommy Barker

They came to say goodbye to an old lady who served her country faithfully for 35 years, during which time she sailed the equivalent distance to the moon and back.

The Naval Service will hold a special decommissioning service on the LÉ Emer next Friday and the vessel is to be sold off through public auction on Oct 23.

Engineers from the Naval Service are assessing damage caused to the LÉ Aoife after the 65-metre-long patrol vessel crashed into a pontoon at the deep water quay in Cobh, Co Cork.

Cork County Council has been urged to acquire, as a potential floating museum or restaurant, one of two Irish Naval Service ships due to be decommissioned.

A huge cargo ship detained in Dublin Port for non-payment of its crew was sold by court-ordered auction yesterday for €4.8m.

Tributes were paid yesterday following the death of one of the men who transformed a rugged headland in Kinsale, Co Cork, into one of the most spectacular golf courses in the world.

Tommy Barker heads east and uncovers a turn-key property dating to the late 1880s, but extended and renovated