No 67 Fernwood has the signs of a happy, child-centred family home — and now its owners are upping sticks and trading up, taking on a far older house to do up, with even bigger gardens, in another Cork suburb. They have a bit of work ahead of them in their new project, but what they leave behind at No 67 is a walk-in job for its next occupants.

Kinsale cottage was given its quality makeover about eight years ago, writes Tommy Barker

There’s a bit of steely backbone to the three-bed semi-d at 34 Ardfield Meadows, Grange, Douglas, Cork: its builders Fleming Construction pioneered their own version of steel-frame construction, and walls with sandwiches of steel and dense insulation winged their way from a massive factory in Ringaskiddy to the four corners of this country, as well as the UK.

Fear of maths can activate regions of the brain linked with the experience of physical pain, a study has found.

A unionist MP today expressed concern that the Provisional IRA or dissident republicans could be using a cover name for the organisation to allow vigilante violence to take place in the North.

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