With similar winsome references to the 300-year-old cottage it replaced, this millennium-built recreation on two acres in East Cork marries the old with the new with a host of modern features and four en-suite bedrooms, writes Tommy Barker.

THE EU’s top court has declared a rationalisation plan that had been developed by beef processors to reduce capacity in the Irish beef industry to be in breach of EU competition law.

THE European Court of Justice has ruled that a scheme run by beef processors to deal with overcapacity is not compatible with EU law and is a restriction of competition.