The houses at Cork’s Ashboro, up in Shanakiel and above Sunday’s Well, are big blocks of homes: in fact, it’s nearly a surprise to find that houses here like No 8 Ashboro have ‘only’ 1,900 sq ft inside in them.

With the latest opinion polls showing independence for Scotland becoming a very possibility, would it be an appropriate time to suggest a radical new proposal for the governance of the western flank of these islands?

Tommy Barker says this Shanakiel offering could be a high-class ‘penthouse’ purchase

PRESENTER, politician, President – that’s the abridged version of Pat Cox’s CV. The former PD member who became a TD and then ran as an independent MEP ended up as President of the European Parliament for three terms.