THERE’D be great harbour and island views if you got permission to build into the roof of Rossmore, aka Number 2, Ardcross, behind the boatyard in Crosshaven, Cork harbour.

ALTHOUGH over 100 years old, the terraced cottage at Kinsale’s No 2, Ferryview, is more like a modern apartment: think sleek quality materials and finishes, and a modest amount of space.

A GREAT site, all three acres of it, will bring viewers to Tullyhill, a dormer built in 2000 that has ocean-wide and island vistas.

SHARING its name with a romantic historical novel, and with a Celtic rock band from Grimsby in Britain, is Merlin’s Keep — a prime Kinsale property in need of a wizard’s wand — or a sweeping brush and a rake.

A 21-YEAR-OLD Moroccan man was last night charged at a special sitting of Limerick District Court with the murder of a Somali teenager in Limerick last Saturday.

TICKETS to the rugbyinternationals in Croke Park are set to raise thousands of euro for the Kinsale Trawler Tragedy Fund when bidding ends today.

I REFER to your article regarding the status of Kinsale Harbour Board (Irish Examiner, January 17). As a sitting harbour commissioner, I am compelled to correct some inaccuracies in the article.

EAMONN O’NEILL (Irish Examiner letters, August 2) says he is disgusted because I, speaking on behalf of the Free the Old Head of Kinsale Campaign, had the audacity to criticise the denial of public access to that most magnificent headland.

A senior member of the Democratic Unionists today denounced the appointment of former Assembly member Monica McWilliams as the chief human rights commissioner in Northern Ireland as crass.

AN IRA monument in the centre of a Co Down town has been damaged by vandals.

Detectives were today stepping up the hunt to catch up to 20 raiders who pulled off one of the world's biggest ever bank robberies.

Former Ulster Unionist MP Jeffrey Donaldson today appealed to former colleagues to work with his party in the run up to next month’s crucial peace process talks.

Two more SDLP councillors have received death threats, the party confirmed tonight.

The chairman of a local policing partnership board in Northern Ireland today hit out at those who sent him a death threat.

A MAN accused of threatening two prison officers was extradited from England, Limerick District Court heard yesterday.

Ulster Unionist Party members were reviewing their security tonight after a mail bomb sent to leader David Trimble partially exploded.

The nationalist SDLP tonight chose four candidates to defend its three seats in the Northern Ireland Assembly in the forthcoming election.

A row erupted at the Northern Ireland Assembly today between the Democratic Unionists and Sinn Fein over disturbances in Lurgan which followed the Armagh’s historic All-Ireland Final triumph.