An environmental officer for one of the firms facing charges relating to an alleged fish kill denies it was a fish kill and says a “negligible” number died.

Helen Kelleher visits a home near Innishannon which is architect-designed and finished to the highest standards

A court has heard concerns that major drainage works on the Bandon River could be delayed unless an action brought by Inland Fisheries Ireland against three contractors on the project is resolved.

The Castlehaven wildflower show was displaying in glorious Technicolor last Sunday, only better than any camera lens or Photoshop could contrive, writes Damien Enright. 

A decision by a contractor in a major infrastructure scheme in West Cork to “keep the public informed” of its progress has been lauded by a TD as the way forward.

A group of knitters have plans to “yarn bomb” a historic landmark in Bandon by draping it in rainbow colours, before it is demolished.

Concern has been expressed at a decision by the OPW not to dredge a river in a flood-hit town ahead of winter.

Roberts Cove Vintage Festival and DeCourcey Harvest Day take place this weekend

Irish Water has announced it’s finally starting work on a €7 million upgrade of sewage treatment and water supply systems in Bandon, Co Cork.

THE mission for the purchasers of Hollyhill House near Kinsale (should they choose to accept it,) is to seek out and rediscover the long-lost secret passage under the property.

Two major flood prevention schemes, costing a combined €22m, are to get under way in Co Cork within a couple of weeks.

Houses at Kinsale’s Ardbrack may go for ‘Scilly -money’, but buyers take their own view, says Tommy Barker.

Tommy Barker visits an Ardbrack home with all-season, Kinsale town, harbour and Bandon River views.

Bridgehill is a quality house in a special setting, says Tommy Barker.

SEPTEMBER 27 brought the advent of butterflies, the first fall or hatch we’ve seen this butterfly-less summer. 

The most outstanding feature of this Irish summer — coming to an ‘official’ end this very day — has been the lack of winged insects.

You’ll feel like the king of the castle in this quality home, says Tommy Barker.

One of Cork’s largest towns is bracing for major upheaval after Irish Water confirmed plans to begin a major €7m combined upgrade of its water and sewer network next year.

THERE aren’t too many places in Cork where a one-bed apartment is priced at €300,000 - but, a spot like Ardbrack Heights in Kinsale is one of a very few such exclusive settings.

Likely new development projects in Bandon, Co Cork may not have automatic access to the town’s sewerage system.

ALONG and bustling history comes with Riverbank House and Quay, a River Bandon-set home that gives its owners the chance to sail the seven seas — if they start off leaving on a high tide.

A probe is under way after more than 100 containers containing hazardous waste were found dumped near a river in Cork.

SIGHTS not to be missed this week: firstly, the Water Crowfoot in your local river.

Ciprian Grozavu strangled a happy-go-lucky Englishman in a flat in Bandon using a homemade ligature while Catherine O’Connor stabbed him repeatedly in the face with two jagged ends of a broken Manchester United mug.

The body of a man was found in the Bandon River tied with cable and the belt from a cardigan and rolled up in a carpet, a jury was told yesterday as a 39-year-old man went on trial for murder.

LEAVING the tourist office, we go left, along the waterfront. Scilly hamlet, with its imposing old buildings on the shore, is seen across the water or exposed mud flats of the Inner Harbour.

An Irishman based in London has picked up the former Kinsale home of Howard Holdings director Greg Coughlan for €3m — half what it cost to develop.

HOME is the sailor, home from the sea — and 5 Ard Cuan in Kinsale’s Ardbrack Heights is no bad spot to drop anchor at.

ONE night recently, as I drove my daughter and her husband west from Cork airport, they spotted a pine marten with its bushy tail and white bib loping into the woodland skirting the Bandon River near Inishannon.

Two killers broke down in tears at opposite sides of a courtroom dock yesterday after hearing of the impact on the murdered victim’s heartbroken family.

The sister of a man who was murdered in Cork two years ago said that the family will never be able to forget - or forgive.

Two people have been sentenced to life in prison for murdering a 27-year old father of one in Bandon in Cork.

A murder trial jury yesterday heard a recording of a 999 call from a man who claimed to have seen a body being thrown over the balcony outside his building.

A 37-year-old woman yesterday denied murdering a 27-year-old man whose strangled body with more than 60 wounds was found dead in the Bandon River in Nov 2011.

Our pick of this week’s property offerings

LIMERICK CITY €225,000

We scan a selection of trading up homes across the country

Despite a guide of €2.25m, this trophy property in Kinsale is well-placed to draw international interest, Tommy Barker reports

Three years after the flood that devastated Bandon in Nov 2009, the town was once again on alert yesterday for serious flooding.