An income of €91,000 per annum is on offer in the €1.1m sale of a Douglas ‘village’ office investment in Cork.

Almost 300 new homes and a neighbourhood centre near Carrigaline in south Cork have been proposed in a recent planning application.

Mostly likely, the buyers for this bungalow at 3 Arderrig Park will be traders-down, reckons estate agent Glenn O’Connor of DNG Creedon’s offices in Douglas.

Trish Dromey says a rare opportunity for a superb family home has come to the market outside Douglas in Cork, with woodland to the rear.

Two apartment complex offers in Cork city, and both strongly let, are being offered to investors at sums of €5.5m and €6m-plus apiece.

Size: Sq m 278 (2,985 sq ft)

It was refreshing to hear Taoiseach Enda Kenny acquaint the public with an eternal truism, in his announcement of the Government’s new jobs strategy and attitude to long-term welfare payments (Jul 18) — ‘there is nothing for nothing’, he said.

A multi-million euro plan has been drawn up which will relieve traffic gridlock in a Cork suburb in the years ahead.

New bridges and cycleways will form part of a plan to free up traffic in a congested area on the southside of Cork City.

A local authority has banned its employees from tree felling and using chainsaws until a number of investigations into the death of one of its workers are concluded.

A man in his mid-forties has been seriously injured in an industrial accident in Co. Cork.

Cork County Council has announced that it will introduce pay parking in several areas of Douglas from May 1.

27 Wheatridge in Cork’s Maryborough Ridge development.

Two women have been killed in separate car crashes in Co Cork.

ALMOST there — just needing a push, a further small pot of money, and gardens - that’s San Rosa.

GARDAÍ were last night attempting to confirm the identities of two young eastern European men, understood to be from Moldova, who were killed in an horrific high-speed crash south of Cork city.

IT’S hard to sum up the attractiveness of Ravensdale, it’s just that when you see it, you go, Aaaah. There’s a kind of chocolate box charm about this Douglas village house, even though it’s obvious it needs work.

Gardaí in Cork are investigating the use of a JCB in an attempted ATM robbery in Carrigaline.

A YOUNG graduate who died in a car crash yesterday was remembered hours later as his former college launched a campaign focusing on road safety.

A man in his early 20's is dead following a crash in County Cork.

A THREE-bed duplex close to the centre of the Cork city suburb of Douglas is on offer for €230,000.

IT seems to be increasingly the norm for RTÉ to allow its staff to reduce the pronounced English alphabet to just 24 letters. Hence, on Sunday afternoons, I am typically informed that golfer X has shot “a sevinny-two this aftinoon”.

SELLING agent Anthony O’Regan of Keane Mahony Smith is seeing good interest in a farm at Ballygarvan, Co Cork, where there are 14 acres on offer with frontage onto the Carrigaline road.

ELEGANT proportions and an extra high standard of fitting makes 5 Wrenbank a bit above average as a trading-up buy in the Cork area.

THE word ‘tragedy’ is used too often and too lightly in a sporting context — an unfortunate own-goal perhaps, or a fleeting honour missed for another year.

BACK in 2006 a house at Kilbrody, in the Mount Oval Village estate hit the market at €470,000. This week a new entrant in the Rochestown, Cork, scheme is on the market at €475,000. Not bad for buyers.

IT’S a bit of a beauty, this double-decker cottage in Crosshaven. And it’s not just the privacy, the huge site and the reach-over views of Drake’s Pool — it’s the potential.

TWO substantial properties are on the market in Carrigaline, with both shading close to the million mark.

A 100-YEAR-OLD golf club has been offered two new golf courses by a top designer if members will agree to move a few miles away to allow 1,000 houses be built on their course.

EXTEND, alter or just enjoy — all the options are there at Hollyhill, a 30-year-old bungalow on a half acre site on the edge of Douglas with Hamilton Osborne King.

I BELIEVE we have reached one of those defining moments in the governance of our country which is stark in its simplicity.

NOT for the first time, Declan Keane, master of Holles Street maternity hospital in Dublin, has highlighted the amazing statistic (RTÉ radio, September 2) that 20% of current births in Dublin are to non-national mothers.

The architect-designed maturing bungalow on a three-quarter acre site was used as a family business, horticulture, with flowers growing and sold from the property, where a 5,000 sq ft glass house was the practical blooming point.

The Irish taxpayer is now lumbered with yet another millstone – the asylum support industry.