Tommy Barker reveals this house is the first to go on sale in this development since 2009.

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Period property was carefully renovated to retain unique features, says Trish Dromey.

It’s been a while since a house in Cork’s Knockrea or Woolhara Parks have come to market - certainly not since the upper end of the market began its climb back out of the doldrums of the last seven years.

To mark the Irish Examiner Food Festival, Bridgestone Guide Contributing Editor and our own food columnist Joe McNamee unveils his inaugural food awards. Read on for the best in fine dining, bar grub, afternoon tea and much more in Cork and Dublin

Gardaí investigating the death of a man in Bandon, Co Cork have appealed for information on the family and background of the deceased.

TWO people have been charged with the murder of a man in Bandon, Co Cork.

LOTS of house, and a bright and cheerful decor all for reasonable money in a handy location — that’s 3, Elderwood Close on Cork’s Boreenmanna Road.

FIRST off, Ber Pey has missed her September deadline – the interior designer’s grand project at 3 Newenham Terrace was set to be rolled out by now but building being building, there’s a delay.

NUMBER 3 Sirius Heights has the kind of grown-up appeal that will make it a dead cert for couples or older families.

IT’S a big, new house on a half acre site in one of Cork’s best-kept-secret addresses – so that gives no 3 Tower Hill at Kilcoolishal a head start in a competitive market.

Part of a Manchester airport terminal was evacuated and a chemical incident was declared today after a man attempted to carry an unidentified white powder onto a plane.

WHAT power doesn’t corrupt it probably destroys.

DUBLIN AIRPORT is to get busier after An Bord Pleanála granted permission for the main passenger terminal to be expanded.

Aer Rianta International have been awarded a seven-year retail contract with JSC Terminal, the authority responsible for developing the new Terminal 3 at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport.

I READ Con Hayes’s letter (‘No intellectual Houdini act can reconcile faith and evolution’, November 26) many times and have failed to grasp the substantive point he was trying to make.

BUILT big, and to last, in the late 1970s and early 1980s were the family homes at Cork’s Temple Vale.

HAVING gone sale agreed on two big St Luke’s Cross area terraced homes in Cork at prices from €820,000 to closer to €890,000, estate agent Andrew Moore has a more manageable offering for around half at €425,000 for a three-bed.

DJ Fatboy Slim is planning to stage a massive beach party in Brighton on New Year’s Day, it was revealed today.

THE president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has called for the population of Israel to be resettled in Europe or America. Perhaps he’s right to prompt more radical solutions, but here’s one high-level scenario that he probably wouldn’t like.

I AM writing a biography of playwright Lennox Robinson and would appreciate any assistance your readers can offer by way of reminiscences, letters, photos or other memorabilia.

PERIOD trimmings and good sash windows, five bedrooms, parking in front, a deck and fern-fringed patio behind, plus the city centre not much more than a mile away.

IT’S hard to tell that the owners of this period house have two small children running around, it’s so perfect.

SMALL, roadside, but in a bang-on location for all services is 3, Douglas West in Cork.

Sean O’Riordan

THERE’S a different march up on Military Hill these days and it’s accompanied by the whine of the angle grinder and the staccato thrum of the pneumatic drill.

WORKPLACE bullying is destructive, abusive, erosive and irrational behaviour which is perpetrated by inadequate, insensitive, self-obsessed people.

THREE storey and three bedrooms, this town house at 3, Manor Lawn, is part of a new development at Ovens, Co Cork, and is in the vanguard of re-sales.

TWO-time champion Venus Williams was upset in the second round of Wimbledon, losing in straight sets to Croatia's Karolina Sprem in a match marred by an umpire's scoring error in the final tiebreaker.

Four men have been remanded in custody after they appeared in court last night, charged with conspiracy to rob the AIB bank in Abbeyleix on Friday.