A ‘FARMED’ field of seven acres, in the heart of suburban Douglas in Cork city is being sold for about €10m, or €1.4m an acre, to rapidly-expanding developers Centurion Homes, currently active in Dublin and Cork.

Greenfield sites hardly come any better, or beguiling, than this. Seven acres of ‘farm’ land, recently shorn of its annual crop of maize, between the two main Douglas Roads in suburban Cork, within a walk of the city centre have just come up for sale as a truly prime development opportunity.

A sailor whose name remains etched in a rock 90 years after he drowned in Youghal Harbour is to be ceremoniously remembered this week.