Clogheen make its claim to be the "Hidden Heart of Ireland".

Susana Farinha has been looking to buy her first home since the new year. Incredibly, she hasn’t bid on one property yet as every time she rings to inquire about a house or apartment, she inevitably discovers that the property is already 20%-30% over its asking price.

OVER 200 years after it was first laid out, Clonakilty’s Emmet Square is back with a bang, and historical resonances.

Willie Duggan has been on the Mitchelstown CBS staff since 1982 and, with over 30 years of service in the classroom and in promoting GAA amongst the school’s small student populace, today marks CBS’s biggest day in sport– its inaugural appearance in an All Ireland colleges final.

Michael Collins never lived in the Georgian house in the West Cork town of Clonakilty, which is being painstakingly restored as a museum dedicated to the life of Ireland’s best known freedom fighter.

The sale of convents around the country chronicles the rapidly changing status of the Catholic Church, one of Ireland’s largest and most enduring institutions.

An ‘exceptionally-well finished’ property comes to the market just outside of Clonakilty, says Tommy Barker.

There were four house types built at the 33-unit scheme Mitchell’s Court, in Kerry Pike, just a short haul up the shouldering hills of Cork heading towards Blarney — or, towards Kerry, if you were to take the old butter roads.

I fully support the recent Irish Examiner/ICMSA poll whereby 46% of the farmers polled supported the death penalty for crimes against children

Last Friday, April 11, marked the opening of the Titanic theme park in Cobh, in remembrance of all those who lost their lives during the sinking of the Titanic on April 12, 1912.

A struck-off solicitor has been jailed for two years for his role in deceiving a bank to lend almost €9m for land now worth €30,000.

A former solicitor from Co Kildare has been jailed for two and a half years for his role in a €9m land purchase fraud.

A struck-off solicitor from Co Kildare has been jailed for two years for his role in deceiving a bank to lend €9m for land now worth €30,000.

A struck-off solicitor and an elderly businessman will be sentenced shortly for defrauding a bank of almost €9m to buy land now worth €30,000.

Size: 130 sq m + 1 acre site

Cork County Council and Irish Water have issued a boil water notice to almost 80 parts of the county due to fears that the supply was contaminated during Wednesday’s storms.

Location: Portlaw, Waterford

Worth a visit for house hunters looking for land and a well-speced home, writes Tommy Barker

A new yoga will have you in convulsions of mirth. It’s jolly good exercise and will make you giggle, says Jonathan deBurca Butler

KILSHEELAN TO CARRICK-ON-SUIR

Many Irish in the US would love to return for Christmas, but some can’t risk it, writes John Riordan in New York

Two men have appeared in court in Kildare charged with theft and fraud offences amounting to over €8.8m.

Regarding Duchess of Cambridge Kate Middleton’s photo controversy, I wish to convey my genuine upset along with thousands others around the world.

The vroom of powerful engines will be heard in East Cork next week as more than 300 owners of Honda Goldwing motorcycles from all over Europe hold a major gathering.

A gang has been using a simple but effective method of “fishing out” money from donation boxes embedded in church walls.

A Tipperary woman who has passed away aged 105 put her long life down to having a glass of wine and a dance every day, her family said yesterday.

FISHERMEN operating out of the new National Seafood Centre at Clogheen, Clonakilty, Co Cork, can look forward to a surge in global demand for fish, according to the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Simon Coveney.

Cahir-based pattissière Julia Finke remembers times past making Advent wreaths and baking biscuits and cakes for Christmas

THIEVES are now targeting churches and grottos.

IT’S the site that’s the thing at Killard, Blarney, where this unreconstructed dwelling comes with 0.8 acres at the rear.