FIVE Munster bank branches are being offered individually for sale, in counties Cork, Kerry and Limerick, with AIB likely to receive around €700,000 in total from the sales.

THIS is the ideal market for country house acquisitions.

I AM writing to object to the proposed M20 motorway.

IT mightn’t be a complete folly to follow in the footsteps of 19th century eccentric Johnny Roche — the man who built this River Awbeg tower, called Castle Curious, in the 1840s, just after the Famine.

THE one remaining regular reader of this column will know of my love for Ballyhea, a love that has been sorely tested by a succession of personal rebuffs in recent years, the price regularly paid for being part of the large and passionate family that goes to make up any decent GAA parish.

AN ECOLOGICAL disaster is on the cards because of tree felling by the state’s forestry company, environmentalists have claimed.

FARMING poses one of the main threats to water quality in Ireland, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.

AWBEG LODGE has its own Mini-Me, a smaller but similar version of this modern house dressed in the same colours.