WE must be grateful for small mercies — but not too grateful to those who released more than 500 tonnes of water per second close to midnight last Thursday when most people were in bed and business owners, already trying to cope with a battered economy, had left their premises unaware that the ESB, in its wisdom, had decided to lower the water level in the Inniscarra dam as the witching-hour of midnight approached.

RTÉ has done a great service to us all and to the historical record by its screening of CSÍ: Cork ’s Bloody Secrets on October 5 on the massacre of innocent Protestants in the Bandon valley in 1922 at a time when hostilities were supposed to have ceased between Ireland and Britain, and before the civil war began.

BLOOMFIELD Cottage, at Coolatudder, Ballinhassig has that great selling point — it comes with full planning for a two-storey extension.

IN letters (December 4) on the awful killing of the Pearson brothers of Coolacrease in Co Offaly, Fr Brian Murphy OSB and Paddy Heaney fly in the face of facts.

Rose Martin checks out a rare Georgian gem in lush West Cork.

MARANATHA Heights is a bit of a modern day ring-fort sitting on top of its hilltop site at Coolatudder, Ballinhassig, with views reaching for miles.

Rose Martin

A QUIET and peaceful location with just nine houses in the estate, is the description given by Damien Murray of ERA Murray Auctioneers to Hillside Gardens in Innishannon, Co Cork.