Friendships formed on football fields twenty years apart bind together two of the country’s best know sporting families. But near tragedy has brought them even closer. Tony Leen addressed yesterdays and tomorrow with the Egans and the Cahalanes.

A smart, stone-faced second or primary home, ready to move into.

BUYERS, be brave – you’ll be the real winners at Waterfall’s Earls Well development – getting the best new homes, bar none, built in Cork (if not all of Munster) in decades. And, you’re being offered them for a bargain, value for money price.

A NEW national school now beckons for the hinterland around Foxwood in Cork’s Rochestown — about a decade after builders O’Brien and O’Flynn were made set aside land for one.

PARKGATE, in the southern suburbs of Cork city, set the standards for modern house design when it was built, according to Peter Skuse of Cahalane Skuse.

ROSEWOOD estate, built by Bradley Brothers in the seventies, is recognised as a quality build, says auctioneer, Peter Skuse of Cahalane and Skuse, who’s selling number 85 there.

TICKING away nicely, sales are almost at the one-third mark for the first new development in the picturesque village of Castletownshend in Co Cork.