One of Cork’s best-kept period harbour homes has a rich past and a bright future, says Tommy Barker.

ZONED land bought for €21m in 2004, at the height of the boom when Munster developer John Barry of Castlelands Construction was building up to 700 houses a year, has eventually come back to market for just 7% of that peak value, €1.5 million.

Offices developed by two of the Celtic Tiger’s busiest Munster developers, John Fleming and John Barry’s Castlelands Construction, in the Cork county towns of Bandon and Mallow have been sold to investors, in deals totalling €3m.

Employers’ group Ibec has expressed concerns about proposals to introduce legislation to outlaw zero hours working contracts.

Job done. Having put a roof over the heads of a family with seven children, this 1991-built 3,000 sq ft home called Stonewalls at Glinny near Riverstick and within a short drive of Kinsale, is up for sale, and ready to do service all over again.

The tracks of the West Cork Railway might have been pulled up, and the land given back to farmers, but there’s memories galore still of the glory days of rail and routes west of Cork city, past viaducts, through tunnels, and over bridges.

This high-spec Killeens family home has a lot to offer below deck, writes Trish Dromey.

An attic conversion has brought the living space of this mid terrace property at 34 Westlawn in Wilton up to over 900 sq ft — which is larger than you might expect.

IT’S not just buses come in threes — so too, it seems do opportunities to buy affordable three-bed detached houses at the Alden Grove development in Douglas.

Brambles beauty should fly out the door in Heron’s Wood. Trish Dromey hears this well-maintained three-bed could well make a happy New Year purchase for one young couple in Carrigaline.

You could almost hold the school sports for the adjacent St Anthony’s boys’ NS in the back garden of 11 Beechwood Park: it’s that long. 

WHOEVER gets to buy 19 Sunday’s Well Road will have to take a view on it — once they get the view, they’ll get the urge, and the big picture.

The Dr Joe O’Keeffe-owned/trained Hard Station lit up yesterday’s Killeady Harriers point-to-point meeting at Ballyarthur by making all the running with John Barry in the winners of one.

Former professional jockey Shay Barry saddled his first double as a handler at yesterday’s Waterford Foxhounds point-to-point fixture.

Tommy Barker gets fired up about a spacious and modern family home with its own pizza oven.

Upwards of 500 houses have been evacuated since Storm Desmond hit, with more than 270 families still unable to return to their homes.

Insurers will not agree to a new scheme to assist those impacted by flooding until the Government gets significant flood defences built.

The clean-up costs for the floods will run into millions of euro, a minister has said, as he warned of further possible flooding. Rising waters are set to peak today.

Authorities and businesses in Cork are bracing themselves for flooding tomorrow with river water rising, a high tide and more rain expected.

Cork property developer John Barry has been declared a bankrupt in Britain.

Tommy Barker on a Douglas home with three-floors of accommodation.

Tommy Barker reports on a tidy property which will attract wide interest.

Some home hunters’ days of roaming the range will be up at Dunroamin House, in Cork’s Kilnaglory, near Ballincollig.

Tommy Barker on reasons you’ll be glad of this top floor two-bed pad.

Norman Bettison has denied telling two men in separate pub conversations that he was part of a South Yorkshire Police internal team seeking to blame “drunken” Liverpool supporters for the Hillsborough tragedy.

This three-bed bungalow by Cork’s Lough and a SuperValu takes up just one-twentieth of its site — so, there must be scope to do more with it?

There’s a triangular green area in the cul de sac section of Mount Oval Village’s Kilbrody, facing No 38 which is now for sale.

Heavy overnight rainfall ensured that ground conditions were extremely demanding at yesterday’s Kildorrery point-to-point meeting, run under the auspices of the Duhallow Foxhounds on the Vaughan family’s lands at Rockmills Stud.