The €9.5 million sale of Irish Life investment properties in Cork and Limerick includes two Patrick Street Cork units set for increased profile from next year, when the Capitol Cinema retail site is completed, bringing a strong anchor (Zara? H&M?) to this end of Patrick Street.

Two buying types looking at accommodating home, says Tommy Barker.

USA: Referring to “this ridiculously stupid winter”, the Ithaca website suggests visiting the Florida Keys this week and returning “when things thaw out.”

The United Nations Security Council, and the five permanent members (US, UK, France, Russia, China), need to be seen to take decisive action in relation to ISIS activities in Iraq.

Architects have come up with designs for Heathrow City — a 190,000-home town that would spring up if the west London airport closes.

Sq m: 102 (1,100 sq ft)

Having wiggled and waggled his way to winning a world championship, the country’s latest antidote to austerity blues arrived home last night to the kind of welcome only a hero deserves.

The INTO has said it will recommend to its members to accept the revised Labour Relations Commission proposals on Croke Park 2.

The Teacher's Union of Ireland (TUI) has voted overwhelmingly in favour of an emergency motion instructing its Executive Committee to withdraw from Croke Park 1 - if Croke Park 2 is imposed on its members.

Passengers using Heathrow face a rise in ticket prices under £3bn (€3.5bn) investment plans proposed today by bosses of the west London airport.

Acts such as Stereophonics and chart-topper Gabrielle Aplin are to take part in a re-staging of a mammoth famed Beatles recording session exactly 50 years on.

Dunmanway, Co Cork €130,000

YOUGHAL, CORK €395,000

A WOMAN has denied dangerous driving causing the death of former inter-county footballer Declan Hayes.

FULLY equipped ... with a tenant? Whether or not the current tenant is a fixed asset or a moveable feast will be up to the buyer of 2 Cois na hAbhannn, near the marina in Co Clare’s Kilrush — after they do the maths.

DIFFERENT eras and contrasting house styles at different ends of the Blackrock Road in Cork are newly on offer.

Both Bus Eireann and Dublin Bus have said some routes are facing curtailments and diversions because of the continuing hazards of compacted snow and ice.

SHANNON Airport could become a hub for cargo between the US and Europe, Transport Minister Noel Dempsey believes.

The Dublin Airport Authority is looking for volunteers to take part in trials at its new Terminal 2 this summer in preparation for its opening this winter.

PRISTINE is the word to describe no 2 Old Court Drive in Ballincollig, Co Cork, a fresh, three-bed semi.

Organisers of the 2016 Olympics are pitching host city Rio de Janeiro as a potential “power island” immune from blackouts like the one that left 60 million Brazilians in the dark, though experts yesterday questioned whether a safe energy haven for the games is possible.

PASSENGER volume at Cork Airport is likely to be the same at the end of this year as it was in 2005, before the new terminal opened.

ON, off and now on again, Margot at 2 Menloe Park, Blackrock, Cork, is back on the market, having been withdrawn for a year.

MEDICS, nuns and academics dominate as occupants of some of the finer houses along Cork’s College Road, so who’ll be the next in line for 2, Brookfield Villas?

Edina Dublin has been awarded two separate contracts valued at just less than €4m for the supply of a 3MWE combined heat and power plant (CHP) and two 2904KVA back-up diesel generator sets for Dublin airport’s new Terminal 2 energy centre.

THE defence of RTÉ’s Coolacrease programme by Dr Martin Mansergh TD won’t pass muster (Letters, January 7).

A TIDAL wave of atrocity stories has resulted from the RTÉ Hidden History programme (October 23) on the 1921 execution of the Pearson brothers in Co Offaly.

GO down to the end of the long garden at 2, Fernwood, Douglas Road, and you’re into a different world. Shady trees, an old stone wall and fields running on to the horizon — that’s all you’ll see.

A reconstruction of a 900-year-old Irish-built Viking ship, which set sail from Denmark seven weeks ago, arrived in Ireland today.

IRONICALLY, the directions given for finding this low-slung, city hide-away with a country garden look are given as ‘turn right opposite the High House.’

WELL-proportioned, bright and spacious, says the brochure, and you can’t disagree with it.

Gary O’Donovan yesterday described a moment during his family’s kidnap ordeal which he could not believe as he sat hooded and tied up and heard the sound of his captor snoring loudly.

One of the masked raiders involved in the false imprisonment of a married couple at their home in Rochestown, Cork, last May fell asleep during the crime which gave the householder the chance to untie himself and get out of the house to alert the gardaí, it emerged today.

TWO detached properties are on offer in Glanmire, Co Cork, at the moment in the Glyntown area.

IN view of the obsequious welcome Charles Windsor received in Munster last year, I suppose it was not all that surprising to see a cabinet minister unveil a memorial to the English pirate Francis Drake in Carrigaline recently.

AS an independent trade union, the ASTI achieved more for its members than the teacher unions that are affiliated to the ICTU.