There should be wide interest, from all sectors, on No 40, Clareville Estate. 

House sales in a solid, though older, suburban estate like Browningstown in Douglas show the pace of house price inflation/recovery over the past five years.

The front of 38 Ivy Crescent, Riverway, is a smartly-presented three-bed semi-d with part brick and part-dash exterior with a feature copper beech tree at its boundary wall.

It’s no longer quite a snip, but there’s good interest in this former hair-salon, in Cork’s suburban Douglas.

Sq. m: 67 (730 sq ft)

The opening race of the Cork Dry Gin Calves Week saw 60 boats compete around the West Cork Islands yesterday in the first of four days of competition organised by Schull Harbour Sailing Club.

It was with disgust I read the Irish Examiner (Mar 4) about Ronan O’Gara getting the boot by Declan Kidney.

MAYFIELD, CORK €275,000

COBH, CO CORK €160,000

The enthusiasm of young members was celebrated, when the Cork Holstein Friesian Club took a break from the bad weather for their annual summer barbecue and herds competition prize-giving in Kinsale.

Although not to everyone’s taste, this house will appeal to those with an eye for difference, says Tommy Barker.

Good location, great value

IF YOU like the Waterfall area on the edge of Cork city, but your budget doesn’t stretch to the likes of Seven Gables above on this page, then James Crowley’s new company sign might point you in the same direction, at a fraction of the price.

Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell was mildly critical last night of Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates, whose angry response to a police officer touched off a national debate on race that involved President Barack Obama.

A Harvard professor and the police officer who arrested him have agreed to meet with US President Barack Obama at the White House on Thursday.

US president Barack Obama has tried to calm the racial uproar he helped stoke by saying police “acted stupidly” in arresting his friend, black academic Henry Louis Gates.

BARACK OBAMA defended his criticism of police officers in the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr as law enforcement groups and Republicans called the president’s remarks out of place.

US President Barack Obama today stood by his assertion that police did not need to arrest a Harvard scholar who was trying to get into his own home.

A WHITE police sergeant who arrested renowned black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jnr said yesterday he’s disappointed President Barack Obama said officers acted “stupidly,” despite acknowledging he didn’t know all the facts.

SAID by its joint selling agents to be in showhouse condition, a dormer bungalow home for sale at Brookdale, in Riverstick, off the Cork to Kinsale road, really is a shoe-in or walk-in job.

FAR, far from the madding crowd, and with a privacy belt of 460 acres, Lackavane, Kealkil is not for the agoraphobic.

NO waiting, and done up ready to move into, that’s the big attraction at 1 Elm Road in Cork’s Fota Rock.

THE tall, slender detached house, 8 Pembroke Heights on the Cork side of Passage West, carries a €340,000 price guide with James Crowley of Keane Mahony Smith.

NO 2 The Avenue in Rockfield is up close and personal — it is just one of four houses in the estate actually on Church Road in Cork’s Blackrock suburb.