“The phone hasn’t stopped ringing in the last two days,” estate agent Tom Woodward says, in the week he launches Glenhelm or No 53 Beaumont Drive, to market in Cork city’s settled southside suburbs.

There will be an Open Garden and a garden Party at John and Helen Fox’s house at Underwood, Rochestown, on Saturday May 28 to raise funds for Douglas Community Association.

Tommy Barker finds a house that ticks the boxes for traders-up and traders-in at Westbury on Beaumont Drive.

Tralee Flower & Garden Club present “The Magic of Christmas” by Rose Hickey in the Grand Hotel, Tralee, on Monday November 17 at 8pm.

A sex trafficker who used African witchcraft rituals to silence young girls smuggled into Britain to be sold on as prostitutes has been jailed for 20 years.

RATHCOURSEY, EAST CORK €295,000

SUBURBAN semis and homes don’t come in much better locations than this brand-new market offering, 19 Beaumont Crescent in Cork city’s suburbs.

WHAT has happened to our world-renowned Cork 2005 European Capital of Culture, or should it be Cork 2005 European Capital of Rubbish.

I WOULD like to compliment the official in Cork City Council who came up with the brilliant idea of the ‘tag a bin’ system.

I WAS disgusted at the way you paraded the picture of a dead child in Beslan on your front page (Irish Examiner, Sept 6).

THE days of mock-stone cladding are just about passed, but for those who can see past it at 15, Temple Vale in Cork, there's quite an attractive house to be discovered.

A MATURE bungalow home that has it all — location, gardens and charm — is up for grabs in Beaumont, Cork city.