CULARD is the real thing. As urban architectural style finds it hard to leave the Victorian and Edwardian models behind, this three storey ‘original of the species’ comes up for sale in one of Cork’s chicest residential quarters, Ballintemple.

MY friends and I are outraged to see another teenage hang-out — the skate park on Penrose Quay in Cork — closed again. Instead of being safe and warm in there, we must now go back out in the cold and rain wet on the side of the street while watching skate boarders slip on the wet ground.