This ‘Home of the Year’ contender in West Cork is in ship-shape for a lively buyer, writes Tommy Barker.

That the final winning margin was 14 points doesn’t really do justice to what was an at-times thrilling Carrigaline Court Hotel Rebel Óg Premier 1 MHC decider at Páirc Uí Rinn last night.

As city living goes, it’s hard to find fault with heritage home Wellington Road’s No 4 Wellesley Terrace — so, put up your Dukes, and throw in your bids.

Carol O’Callaghan meets the man behind a thousand store fronts — the principal of architecture and design company, Douglas Wallace Consultants, and a man who’s become better known as a judge in ‘Home of the Year’.

One Irish radio talk show host got more than he bargained for after suggesting that Daniel O’Donnell was out of tune during his recent Rose of Tralee performance.

It’s a house fit for a king, an economically friendly king, and it’s just been crowned RTÉ’s Home of the Year.

You try to phrase it delicately but in fairness to Seamus Harnedy, he doesn’t beat around the bush.

IN a culture where beauty and youth are worshipped, women are putting themselves under increasing pressure to hold back the years.

Maybe it is of no significance. But on Monday last, at about half past eight in the evening. I swatted my first horse fly of 2012.

Simon Jameson is 23 years old. He has just finished college and his biggest sporting passion is paintballing. But although this Dublin man enjoys the physically demanding target game, he is confined to a wheelchair.

A LIMERICK-born student who died in a motorway accident in England was yesterday described as a person any parent would love to have as a daughter.

A murderer who skipped bail before his guilty verdict was delivered handed himself to police in the North today.

A murderer who skipped bail in the North before his guilty verdict was delivered may be hiding in the Republic, police said today.

GRAPHIC media pictures taken at the scene of the hit-and-run that claimed the lives of two Irish women on a visit to Rome intensified the pain and loss of both families, mourners heard yesterday.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern has led the tributes to former Tánaiste John Wilson who has died aged 84.

GARDAÍ are now certain that a mother and her two grown-up children drowned in a north Cork river last Sunday, and not on Monday as first thought.

A SOLITARY bouquet of flowers lay at the waters edge yesterday as disbelieving neighbours prayed at the spot where the bodies of a mother and her two children were taken from a river in north Cork.

Moving tributes were paid today to a mum and her two children who died in a tragic swimming accident in Castletownroche yesterday.

A GANG of 10 men and women spent four hours tearing apart the foundations of a new home - after the owners’ curious kitten got stuck in an underground pipe.

Six Irish players have been named on the Barbarians team for the three-match tour of Britain. Two Irish forwards have been selected, and four backs.

YOU might have expected the battle-hardened golfers of Portmarnock to be just a little blasé after winning their 18th Bulmers Irish Senior Cup at Lisburn on Saturday but such was, in fact, far from the case.

ITA BOURKE didn’t live long enough to see her dream come true.

ITA Bourke’s life was celebrated in a very special way yesterday.