Modern mansion’s extra buildings are as high-spec as any home. Tommy Barker views a Beast in the East.

Amid scenes reminiscent of the aftermath of a music festival, tents, sleeping bags, and items of clothing were found abandoned across the sensitive dunes area on Ardnahinch beach in east Cork after the weekend party.

This five-bed bungalow with bags of potential boasts some illustrious neighbours, writes Tommy Barker.

Environmental champions who have changed the toilet- flushing habits of hundreds of people and improved water quality in a scenic bay have been honoured for protecting the Irish coastline.

Beaches and marinas across the country are bathing in the warm waters of European approval — 86 of them have been awarded the prestigious Blue Flag status.

When it comes to keeping up with neighbours — like a certain Rachel Allen, perhaps, who as it happens lives close-by? — this East Cork home went all-out in the cooking stakes— or, more appropriately, steaks, given the size of its outdoor barbecue.

There’s creature comfort galore in East Cork family home, Tommy Barker reports

THOUSANDS of empty plastic containers, washed up near Blue Flag beaches in east Cork, are thought to have come from one of seven containers lost at sea last month.

SIZEABLE price reductions are being flagged for the ’09 spring selling season on two very varied house options east of Cork city.