Tommy Barker says there are green shoots in the construction sector.

More than 5,000 homes in Cork, Kerry, and Limerick are still without landline phones after recent storms.

Located at Garraun South, this detached modern country house near Donoughmore, Co Cork, is well-finished, Tommy Barker reports

Courtbrack scheme has six of 12 properties booked, Rose Martin reports

A DORMER bungalow in Courtbrack, near Blarney, Co Cork, on a 1.1-acre site, comes with a garage and is only a couple of minutes’ drive to the village.

THE Royal Society, one of the leading academies of science in the world, states on its website: ‘It has become fashionable in some parts of the British media to portray the scientific evidence that has been collected about climate change and the impact of greenhouse gas emissions from human activities as an exaggeration.’

TWO housing projects, believed to be worth a combined €120 million, have been given the go-ahead in a Co Cork town.

YOU may have difficulty getting mobile phone coverage in parts of Donoughmore, and the quiet country roads might put the townies off, but this area outside Blarney in Co Cork is on the way up.

I WISH to respond to Terry Prone's pious, politically correct opinion piece on male circumcision (Irish Examiner, August 25).