Price: €440,000

If you want to live in a boring box of a home, it’s best to give Woodbrook House a skip; it’s a one-off, bursting with individuality, comfortably provisioned with creature comforts and five en suite bedrooms, architect-designed and all ageing gracefully and on sloping grounds of dense planting, with pergola, pond and privacy.

A former Cork city bar operated by the Rebel Bar Group has changed hands, and is due to re-open by Easter. Mulligans, on Parnell Place, has been acquired by a small consortium headed up by Liam Barry, who has owned the Bodhrán on Oliver Plunkett Street for more than 10 years, and who’s been in the bar business in Cork and Mallow for almost 20 years.

HOUSES in Cork’s Sidney Park are embedded in the city’s veins of sandstone, rising in serried ranks from the side of St Patrick’s Hill up towards the grounds of the former St Patrick’s Hospital. And top of the pile is Knockmahon.

Arts Editor Marc O’Sullivan met the late artist a few years ago and discovered to his delight that they shared a mutual admiration for each other’s work

Tommy Barker finds a mix of timeless solidity and contemporary flair in a five-bed home with stunning views in all directions.

HEY ho — how times change. These houses at The Borough on Cork’s Maryborough Hill are sitting on some of the most expensive real estate in the city — the land was bought at peak, but the majority of the development came to fruition after the downturn.

BILLED the best specified new houses on the market in Bandon, the west Cork scheme Inis Orga kicks off next weekend with a fortunate 20 pre-sales in the bag — not a bad start for development of just around 90 new homes.

PROJECTS worth hundreds of millions of euro are in the pipeline for County Cork, as the Celtic Tiger shows no signs of slowing down.

THIRD-level scholarships worth up to €160,000 and financed by JP McManus were last night presented to eight students who completed their Leaving Certificate exams at CBS Sexton Street in Limerick.

THE market for good family homes north of Lee in Cork has been evidenced in recent weeks with a spectacular house sale just under €2.2 million.

CROSSHAVEN and Cobh Pirates are a step closer securing a place in the playoffs for a Heineken Munster Junior League First Division place, while Youghal, who lead the other section, face a late challenge from Nenagh Ormond and Skibbereen.

KILFEACLE have gone clear at the top of the First Division of the Heineken Munster Junior League and their clash with second place Bruff in two weeks time, looks like having a big bearing on the destination of this season’s title.

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THE price guide for wonderful Wood House, on a wooded hillside site at Curraleigh overlooking the Inniscarra dam in Cork, has been dropped below the €1 million price level.