THERE’S something special — in fact, lots special — about the great family home called Ard na Gréine, which bookends the Rosebank estate, located between the main and south Douglas roads in Cork’s suburbs.

Tommy Barker gets with the system for this post-and-beam home on Compass Hill, above Kinsale harbour.

Immaculate semi-detached has many attractions, writes Tommy Barker

The world’s number one pitch & putt player yesterday confessed to driving three men to and from the scene of a robbery at a brothel in Cork.

An 88-year-old woman who was meticulous about minding herself and only crossed the road at pedestrian crossings was killed while crossing at such a point with the green light in her favour at a busy junction in her home town of Macroom.

An elderly woman who claims she is facing eviction from a nursing home over €38,000 a year fees has lost a High Court bid to get the HSE to pay towards her care.

A 77-year-old woman faces eviction from a nursing home after the HSE demanded she pay €38,000 per year for her accommodation because she was the owner of the family farm for “less than a minute” before it was transferred to her son, the High Court has heard.

A bouncer at Hillbilly’s in Cork City centre, who claimed he had to put up with a lot of blackguarding, punched a man twice in the face leaving him bleeding from the nose and ear.

A national martial arts champion who hopes to represent Ireland in the Olympics has avoided jail after being caught with over €22,000 of drugs.

A Cork teenager who appealed against the severity of his six-year sentence for stabbing his uncle to death on the basis that there had been a breach of the separation of powers has seen his bid dismissed at the Court of Criminal Appeal.

KEEPING it looking simple can be a hard job: the west Cork house called Ard na Greine in Roaringwater Bay is an example of a challenging build, where the art is and was in concealing the art.

THE same house was burgled four times in one year with a total of approximately €3,000 being snatched, and yesterday a man pleaded guilty to carrying out the four thefts.

BUILT six years ago by a builder for his own private use, the large 2,800 sq ft family home at Ard Na Greine, near Croom is a good family home buy, with a guarantee of good construction standards.

The Cork teenager who stabbed his uncle to death last year was jailed for six years today.

A teenager will be sentenced later for the manslaughter of his uncle in Co Cork just over a year ago.

THE judge who is due to sentence the Blarney teenager who stabbed his uncle to death expressed his concern yesterday about “a most improper communication” which he received in relation to the matter.

A BLARNEY teenager who stabbed his uncle to death with a jagged edged flick-knife now meets the deceased in his nightmares, it emerged at his sentencing hearing.

AUSTRALIAN TV soap Neighbours has its fictional Ramsay Street, in the equally fictional Erinsborough, while back in auld Erin there’s good neighbours at Ramsey Hill, Courtmacsherry in west Cork.

Gardaí are appealing for witnesses to the fatal stabbing of a man in his 40s outside a pub in west Dublin early yesterday morning.

A teenager was being questioned today after a 30-year-old man was stabbed to death.

Gardaí in Co. Cork are seeking the public's help in tracing the whereabouts of a 47-year-old man.

WITH grounds that are ‘exploding with colour at this time of the year, this new market entry at Waterfall, should have gardeners entranced.

GARDAÍ yesterday rejected criticisms from the family of deceased teen Jamie Farrelly Maughan regarding their search for the missing girl.

MORE than 1,000 people yesterday gathered for the emotional funeral of service 13-year-old Jamie Farrelly Maughan.

Friends and family of a 13-year-old girl found dead in Cavan gathered today for an emotional funeral service.

A SEARCH for a missing teenage girl ended in heartbreak for a Cavan family yesterday.

The body of a woman has been found at a house in Cavan town.

WITH queues of cars heading to Ringaskiddy every morning, the chance to beat the rush is offered with the sale of this south Cork property at Shanbally.

GOOD, very good and even better — that could be the summation of this year’s Limerick property market including a forecast for the next year.

RE-WIRED, re-plumbed and renovated over the last five years, Árd na Gréine, at Ashbourne Avenue on Limerick’s South Circular Road is up for auction on November 26 through Gillian Dunne of Sherry FitzGerald.

IT is not so much the house, more the site and the location that might justify the asking price close to €1 million which attaches to Ard na Greine.