“It’s like losing a member of my own family.”

The result of the marriage referendum has had an enormous impact on the sense of security in the LGBT community, former Government Minister, Kathleen Lynch, claimed yesterday as she attended the 11th Cork LGBT Pride parade on the Grand Parade, Cork.

This two-bedroomed apartment in Ballincollig is attracting a lot of interest from a wide range of buyers — first-timers, downsizers and investors.

The severe shortage of accommodation on the west of Cork city has seen huge demand for property across the board, says auctioneer, Derek Dorgan. 

Four-bed semis are in very short supply in Ballincollig and many which do come on the market, are more expensive than this one at 138 An Caislean, guiding at €299,950.

Space and good value combine at 24 Fernway, in Classes Lake, at Ovens/Ballincollig west of Cork, where €180,000 will buy a four-bed duplex apartment with a 24’ long outside veranda.

Some home hunters’ days of roaming the range will be up at Dunroamin House, in Cork’s Kilnaglory, near Ballincollig.

Cork Alpine and Hardy Plants Society present a talk by Val Bourne, the award-winning garden writer, last year’s “Journalist of the Year” at the UK Garden Media Guild Awards; photographer; lecturer and columnist for the Telegraph newspaper, on Thursday, Feb 26.

Within weeks of being released from sentences totalling 16 years for killing and raping a young Cork beautician and robbing an elderly couple at their rural post office, a Cork criminal violently robbed a Limerick shop manager, a court heard.

It was a special day for a special little boy yesterday as supermarket chain Tesco created 104 new jobs by opening its latest Irish store.

A love-struck young man has gone to eggs-traordinary heights to give his girlfriend a Kinder-surprise with a romantic difference.

It’s a service normally associated with fast-food joints. But now an Irish retailer has opened what it claims is Cork’s first drive-through supermarket.

Businesses and individuals developing and selling smartphone and computer apps in the EU earned €17.5bn last year, a figure that could rise to €63bn in just five years.

A seven-year-old who broke his elbow playing on a bouncy castle was yesterday awarded €50,000 compensation against the owners.

While touring her new record, Julie Feeney has let singers in each area pick which songs they want to work on, writes Nicki ffrench Davis

DOUGLAS, CORK €395,000

BALLINCOLLIG, CORK €285,000

We scan a selection of trading up homes around the country

BALLINCOLLIG, CORK €200,000

IT WAS great to catch up with the wines of Santa Rita at a recent tasting.

A MAN was holding his infant son in his arms when he was gunned down in front of his partner in a brutal gangland-style execution.

Mogeely property shining bright

ONE man inspired a congregation of several hundred Mass-goers to stand and applaud the priests of their parish on Sunday.

A FORMER army lieutenant who has spent 41 years fighting to clear his name after being sacked from the defence forces without explanation will have a fresh review of his case.

Ted Cunningham painted himself as the victim in the witness box, writes Liam Heylin.

CORK drug dealer David “Boogie” Brett who was shot dead on Monday night appears to have been the victim of a professional hit.

WELL, there’s one at least comes along each spring with impeccable timing. This time no 30 Daffodil Fields is the first four-bed detached to burst onto the selling season, in tune with nature’s equivalent, hosts of golden daffodils.

BUILT just outside of Ballincollig, Co Cork, by O’Callaghan Properties this scheme of houses was developed in advance of the bypass route.

SECOND-LEVEL schools fear they will be unable to meet their legal obligations to students with special needs unless proper resources are provided by the Department of Education, principals said yesterday.

AT a deserted inlet at West Cork’s Owenahincha Beach yesterday afternoon, five-year-old Niamh Twomey laid a make-shift cross at the spot where the body of Jonathan Herlihy was found hours earlier.

DON’T forget to put the Midleton Food and Drink Fair, which takes place on September 2 and 3, in Midleton, Cork, into your diary.

The chairman of the Road Safety Authority renewed his appeal for drivers to take care on the roads today – one of the busiest motoring days of the year.

THE High Court yesterday quashed a report of the Judge Advocate General (JAG) who concluded that a decision to forcibly retire a young Irish Army lieutenant in 1969 had been at that time “reasonable”.

A TEENAGER was killed in a car crash yesterday morning, the second to die in Cork in a little over 24 hours.

MANY grieving parents received the body of their baby for burial wearing a little crocheted bonnet, which they were told not to take off.

FOLLOWING a steady start to 2003, demand for new apartments in Munster grew significantly throughout the year with particular interest in properties situated in Limerick, Cork and Waterford city centres.

TWO large modern houses in The Meadows estate, outside Ballincollig, Cork, offer good value in terms of square footage for buyers trading-up.

JASON Stokes admits he owes Liam Kearns a favour or two.

CONSULTANTS at a London hospital say a 32-year-old Irish woman suffering from hepatitis C is still too ill to undergo a life-saving liver transplant.

A HEPATITIS C sufferer, flown by air ambulance to a London hospital on Saturday for a life saving operation, remains critically ill.