Kerry County Council said it will provide assistance to the households cut off by a landslide overlooking Rossbeigh Strand in Kerry.

JOINING Savills’ offer of the Dundrum House Hotel in Tipperary for sale at €2.75m, and the 110-bed Heritage Hotel in Portlaoise for €1.5m, is another Munster hotel — a beachside offer at €450,000, just waiting for the tide of opportunity to turn.

Might it be second time lucky for estate agency firm Global Properties in East Cork - gratis of the Irish Examiner? Sale hopes are high in the case of the detached bungalow at the Welsh-sounding spot of Llennoco, with sea views at Garryvoe Lower.

Sq m: 112 (1,200 sq ft)

Sq m: 110 (1,200 sq ft)

The Hot Ticket: Derry

Seven beaches in Co Cork have reopened after the latest test results showed a significant fall in E.coli levels.

Bathing water at contaminated beaches in Cork had nearly four times the permitted EU level of the E.coli bacteria, which if ingested can cause severe vomiting, diarrhoea, and in some cases even death.

IN THE space of a decade, the number of B&Bs in this country has dropped from 4,500 to 1,850, according to B&B Ireland.

We scan a selection of trading up homes around the country

Bargain €500,000 for ‘Millionaires Row’ home, Tommy Barker reports.

FOR the past 30 years, Con O’Leary and his wife, Anne, have holidayed in their mobile home, in Glenbeigh, Co Kerry.

BACK during the Cold War period, senior members of the Swiss government bought a west Cork bolt-hole at Liss Ard, near Tragumna.

A TOTAL of 16 tourism-related projects in Co Cork are to benefit from €1.1 million in funding from Fáilte Ireland and Cork County Council.

CLEVERLY concealed under the cloak of the general election was a deadline for observations/objections regarding a proposed major development in Clonea, Co Waterford.

AN expedition to rival any in Irish history ended in Donegal yesterday when six swimmers completed the first ever round-the-coast swim.

AS THE festive season gets into full swing, Kerry is braced for the annual influx of Traveller traders, but the county still has no halting site for them.

Donal Hickey

Bomb disposal experts were called to a Co Kerry beach today after ancient ammunition dating back to World War I washed up on the sands.

FOR several years the sea wall at Youghal’s Front Strand in Co Cork has become less resistant to the ravages of the elements.

A MULTI-MILLION euro hotel and holiday home development that could have created more than 100 jobs has been given the thumbs down by An Bord Pleanála.

DONAL HICKEY has highlighted a situation in Castlegregory, Co Kerry (Irish Examiner, October 5), which could have a devastating effect on the local economy and ruin the traditional family seaside holiday there for many people.

LONG associated with fields of mobile homes, the tide is turning slightly in favour of permanent houses at Blue Flag beach Owenahincha in West Cork.

LONG associated with fields of mobile homes, the tide is turning slightly in favour of permanent houses at Blue Flag beach Owenahincha in West Cork.

WILL the attractions of Attracta House prise it out of B&B usage and bed it back down into private living quarters?

SUITABLE for a cult, or a commune, and coming with its own smoking room - that’s part of the sales pitch for Beach House, which is just new to the market on the Aran Islands.

THE planning battle to develop the Lawns in Castletownshend in West Cork was, appropriately, an uphill one, given the unique hillside character of this time-warped seaside village.