Person: Glenn O’Connor

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Finn’s penalty crucial as Barr’s end Na Piarsaigh’s season

St Finbarr’s warhorses Eoin Keane and Glenn O’Connor stood up and showed their mettle, resulting in the southsiders edging past northside rivals Na Piarsaigh and into the quarter-final draw.

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House of the week: Douglas, Cork city €475,000

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More first-time buyers getting a start

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A cracker of a renovated home in Mount Oval Village

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Blue tide rising as St Finbarr’s on the march

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Starter home: Donnybrook, Cork, €220,000

Trading up: Ballinlough, Cork €380,000

This home is in good order inside and outside, with a front garden and drive, and walled- in back garden, facing east.

Sat, 11 Feb, 2017

The Hedgerow in Wilton easy on the eye and with fresh internal design

Tommy Barker finds a highly specified and modern four-bedroomed family home on the outskirts of Cork. 

Sat, 21 Jan, 2017

This home in Cork’s Wilton is a great buy

This house is worth viewing if only for the staircase — it has an exceptionally grand entrance — matched, it must be said, by the quality of decor and finishing in the rest of 1 The Hedgerows, in the Eagle Valley estate.

Sat, 22 Oct, 2016

Trading up: Kingsbury, Douglas €295,000

Irrespective of the balmy hot weather of the past week, you’d bake readily enough, in any weather, inside and outside, at this Kingsbury, Douglas village home.

Sat, 23 Jul, 2016

Starter home: Douglas, Cork €220,000

This high-spec offering’ bright add-on is “one of the best around”.

Sat, 16 Jul, 2016

Battling St Finbarr’s rally to foil Newcestown in extra-time

St Finbarr’s 2-15 Newcestown 1-15: An extra-time surge from St Finbarr’s, having sneaked a draw at the end of 60 minutes, propelled them into Round 2A of the Cork SHC at Newcestown’s expense in Brinny yesterday.

Mon, 30 May, 2016

Starter home: Douglas, Cork, €215,000

There’s a lot more to an exceptional mid-terraced three-bed in Douglas than meets the eye, says Trish Dromey.

Sat, 23 Apr, 2016

Trading Up: Maryborough, Douglas, €375,000

The last two, quite recent sales at Edgewood, in Cork’s Maryborough Ridge, saw similar four-bed semis selling at €380,000 and €400,000, so the owner-occupier of No 25 is keen to see her own home moving on in this price league too.

Sat, 26 Mar, 2016

Starter home: Blackrock, Cork, €165,000

A two-month makeover has transformed No 3 into an affordable, comfortable home close to Blackrock village, says Trish Dromey.

Sat, 30 Jan, 2016

Classy Castlehaven set up mouth-watering Ballincollig clash

Castlehaven 1-14 St Finbarr’s 1-10 (Cork SFC Round 4): Castlehaven returned to the scene of last year’s championship humiliation but, looking renewed and refocused, the west Cork men displayed their innate hunger for battle to overcome a gutsy St. Finbarr’s in an entertaining Cork SFC clash on Saturday.

Mon, 31 Aug, 2015

Wasteful Midleton struggle past Finbarr's

Midleton 1-15 St. Finbarr’s 1-13: The story of this Cork SHC round four clash on Saturday centred around Midleton’s staggering total of 20 wides, but 1-15 was enough for the Magpies to make it into the quarter-finals to face the winners of next weekend’s Duhallow-Douglas clash.

Mon, 17 Aug, 2015

St Finbarr’s too classy and clinical for Bishopstown

St Finbarr’s 1-17 Bishopstown 0-10: Accuracy and class helped St Finbarr’s to a comprehensive win over Bishopstown in yesterday’s Cork SHC Round 3 clash at Pairc Ui Rinn.

Mon, 03 Aug, 2015

Blackrock are back on track

Blackrock 2-11 St Finbarr’s 0-15: “We are delighted to bury the memory of Ballyhea,” said Blackrock coach, Eddie Murphy, following this Cork SHC second-round victory at Páirc Uí Rinn.

Mon, 22 Jun, 2015

Trading up: Ballinlough Road, Cork €345,000

Fresher than many of its neighbours is the mid 1900s Ballinlough Road family home called Padua - it was upgraded in the mid 2000, and the underpinning/drains work was done at the same time.

Sat, 02 May, 2015

Starter home: Maryborough Woods, Cork €149,000

The chance to get in at ground level, literally, at the apartment blocks at Douglas’s Welwyn Road, up in Maryborough Woods, has come with the sale of No 8.

Sat, 02 May, 2015

Rochestown, Cork €295,000

A bright cheerful interior, with lots of reds and whites and all easy on the eye, comes with 7 Abbotswood Avenue.

Sat, 06 Dec, 2014

Morrissey hosts Club All Star awards gala

The third annual Reardens Club All Star awards take place next Monday at 7.30pm, with 45 hurlers and 45 footballers in contention to be recognised for their excellence in the senior championships this season.

Tue, 04 Nov, 2014

Starter home: Home in Grange a steal at €195,000

Size: 93 sq m (1,000 sq ft)

Sat, 27 Sep, 2014

Ryan content as superb Sars go into overdrive

Cork SHC quarter-final: Sarsfields 3-20 St Finbarr’s 1-16

Mon, 08 Sep, 2014

Cremin lauds brilliant Barr’s

St Finbarr’s 3-12 Erin’s Own 1-9

Mon, 25 Aug, 2014

Trading up: Turners Cross, Cork €220,000

Sq m: 93 (1,010 sq ft)

Sat, 26 Jul, 2014

Trading up: Rochestown, Cork €345,000

Sq m: 139 (1,500 sq ft)

Sat, 12 Jul, 2014

Starter homes: Donnybrook, Cork €195,000

Size: Sq m 102 (1,100 sq ft)

Sat, 05 Jul, 2014

Starter homes: High Street, Cork city €150,000

Size: Sq m 83 (900 sq ft)

Sat, 21 Jun, 2014

Starter homes: Passage West, Cork harbour €220,000

Sq m: 134 (1,450 sq ft)

Sat, 21 Jun, 2014

Starter homes: Maryborough, Douglas, Cork €135,000

Sq m: 69 (750 sq ft)

Sat, 31 May, 2014

Starter homes: Donnybrook, Cork €195,000

Sq m: 130 (1,400 sq ft)

Sat, 26 Apr, 2014

Starter homes: Cork City €69,000

Sq m: 85 (925 sq ft)

Sun, 23 Feb, 2014

Starter homes: Enhanced semi-d in Pinecroft, €185,000

There’s been work done to the back, and up on top, of No 17, Grange Way, Pinecroft in Cork.

Sat, 01 Feb, 2014

Starter homes: Cork City €125,000

Sq m: 67 (720 sq ft)

Sat, 25 Jan, 2014

Trading up: Douglas, Cork, €275,000

Sq m: 140

Sun, 12 Jan, 2014

Starter homes

We scan a selection of starter homes from around the country.

Sat, 04 Jan, 2014

Starter homes

We view a selection of starter homes from around the country

Sat, 31 Aug, 2013

Starter homes

We scan a selection of starter homes from around the country

Sat, 03 Aug, 2013

Bouncer punched singing customer

A bouncer at Hillbilly’s in Cork City centre, who claimed he had to put up with a lot of blackguarding, punched a man twice in the face leaving him bleeding from the nose and ear.

Thu, 23 May, 2013

Takeaway bouncer punched singer

Serenading a bouncer at Hillbilly’s in Cork city centre resulted in the singer being punched in the face.

Thu, 17 Jan, 2013

Starter homes

Ballincollig, Cork €115,000

Sat, 08 Dec, 2012

Glen find extra gear to edge out Barr’s for final spot

GLEN ROVERS will meet Na Piarsaigh in the final of the city division U21 hurling final after they beat St Finbarr’s in extra time at Ballinlough yesterday.

Mon, 08 Nov, 2010

Ryan: I couldn’t walk off with unfinished business

LONG serving St Finbarr’s stalwart Michael Ryan had his career plans mapped out before last season’s county senior football final.

Thu, 21 Oct, 2010

Barr’s dig deep to see off wasteful Rangers

IT’S an all-city Cork SFC final, a battle between probably the two best sides in the county at the moment, as St Finbarr’s – albeit, riding their luck – wore down wasteful Carbery Rangers under lights at Pairc Ui Rinn on Saturday to book a final date with Nemo Rangers.

Mon, 18 Oct, 2010