ESTATE agents’ brochures invariably highlight the positives — but is a healthy 90-minute walk really going to sell a house? Or, is it telling us something about the way in which people may commute from their energy-saving homes in the future?

ANYONE thinking of building a contemporary-designed and wholly modern new house would do well to travel to Ard Chuan, the Passage West location that lives up to its name, high above a sweeping river bend in Cork harbour.