A man has told his murder trial he was afraid for his life when he hit another man on the head with a baseball bat.

MILLION-PLUS house sales – even in Dublin – were rare as hen’s teeth in the comatose year now coming to end, without any recovery signs imminent, either.

LOCAL gossip along the Blackrock Road in Cork would have you believe that a couple of new and renovated houses, currently in their finishing stages, are costing their owners €5 million or even €6m to complete.