“Mom is asleep and she won’t wake up,” said a nine-year-old boy who had tried to rouse his mother as she sat, seemingly asleep, on the couch in their sitting room.

BACK up for swift 2007 bids after a pre-Christmas ‘sale agreed’ didn’t close, no 47 Central Avenue at Bishopstown, in Cork, is a classic semi-d, with add-ons.