Infant sleep therapist, Lucy Wolfe, has been dubbed ‘The Baby Whisperer’. Karen Boylan, a very sleep-deprived parent, puts her methods to the test. 

YOU never meant it to happen but there are three in the bed — you, your partner and your toddler. 

Pippa O’Connor is the ambassador for the SMA Know-How Pregnancy and Baby Fair 2014, which takes place in the RDS on August 30 and 31.

Sundays Well, Cork €349,000

An estimated one in four families experience sleep problems during a child’s early years, but there is help out there for parents, writes Lucy Taylor,

TURNERS CROSS CORK €150,000

No 4 Frankfield View has a guide price of €175,000.

HIDDEN away, quiet but within a few minutes’ walk of Cork city centre is the residential enclave Parkowen, just off Quaker Road.

A MOVE to a city selling agent, plus a price drop, may bring some fresh viewings eyes to Mount Lodge, a quite genuine 5,000 sq ft period home near Enniskeane, west Cork.

HOUSES with adjoining sites are on offer in two Cork locations. It seems you’ll now get a house plus site for what the house alone might have fetched four years ago.

JUST four years old, this is a very smart, detached house in a good location at Blarney, Co Cork.

THE expression ‘keep your friends close, and your enemies closer’ — used in the Godfather movies but originating centuries ago in China — might well apply when it comes living closely with loved ones. Witness the proximity, or otherwise, of the ‘granny flat.’

IT’S a case of sell the house, or have another baby, laughs auctioneer Lucy Wolfe, as she puts her own young family’s home on the market.

THE SWALLOWS ticks a number of boxes for the urban/rural buyer.

WHETHER either the Beamish & Crawford brewery on Cork’s South Main Street or the Heineken Ireland brewery on the city’s Watercourse Road will still be in operation in two years time is a very real question as the news is digested that the Competition Authority won’t be stopping the takeover of Ireland’s oldest brewery by Heineken Ireland.

ITCHY building fingers were behind Bydon Lodge some 14 years ago, and now the vendor has repeated — and excelled — himself again.

Tommy Barker is given a tour around the Courtyard, an architectural delight, completed to the highest of standards in material and style.

GLANMIRE’S Coach House, with its eye-catching eyelet windows, may look familiar as it is an occasional arrival on the property market.

DRINKERS in Cork yesterday told Carlsberg and Heineken bosses: “Hands off our city’s breweries!”

COMPACT, cute and close to the city and UCC, No 210 Pearse Road in Ballyphehane is a walk-in, stamp-dutyless buy for first-timers.

YOU have to speculate to accumulate, as the saying goes, and this site on the Rochestown Road in Cork is as good an example as any of superb speculative ingenuity.

A NICE, big bungalow, this, but is it worth €750,000? Of course it is, when it has just under two acres of land adjoining Heron’s Wood in Carrigaline.

LITTLE and large home options are on the go on Cork’s Rochestown Road, aimed at two diverse ends of the upwardly mobile buying market.

BUYING a home can seem a bit daunting at first, but once you've set your sights on a property and have put in a bid, things really start rolling.

WAITING to sign the final papers on your first home is daunting as last-minute hitches can delay the sale of a property by up to a few months.

LUXURY SUR MER - just one of four huge houses overlooking the sea at Weaverspoint, in Crosshaven, Co Cork remains to be sold, says auctioneer, Lucy Wolfe, who marketed the scheme off the plans a little less than two years ago.