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.

Location: Blackrock Road, Cork

A leading Munster and Ireland rugby man is highest bidder on a fine family home in recent months on Cork city’s Blackrock Road — now, another top offer comes along to join the select scrum of suburban homes up for grabs.

IT could be Boreenmanna from heaven — a brand new, A-rated energy efficient detached home, within a walk of Cork City centre, for €350,000.

Parents of pupils attending a Cork City primary school have been urged to check that their children’s vaccinations are up to date on foot of a suspected case of whooping cough at the school.

IT’S been just one year since we launched our new-look Irish Examiner Property and Interiors supplement. Since that April, we’ve brought news and shown you some of the very best houses to come to the Munster market.

Tommy Barker rounds up some of the movers and shakers in an otherwise depressed year on the domestic property front

HOT on the heels of a recent successful house sale on the corner of Cork’s Blackrock Road and Crab Lane is the detached Crab Lane bungalow Glenville.

Knocknacurra on the upmarket Blackrock Road is twice its original size and stylishly refitted, says Tommy Barker.

A PLUM garden site on which to build, in one of Cork city’s best western suburbs, Orchard Road is for sale. It comes new to market, just as rival and adjoining sites across Cork city on a former crab apple orchard also get a renewed sales push (see below).

QUIRKY, not so petite as you’d think, and definitely one to look around — that’s auctioneer Tim Sullivan’s verdict on The Cottage, a slice of country-style living in the heart of Cork’s old suburbs.

NOW you see them, now you don’t — these two adjoining bungalows pictured right are about to be flattened, and replaced by separate, detached brand new homes.

AS many as 336 people have been screened for Tuberculosis, half of them twice, in an effort to identify who is behind an outbreak of the disease in a Cork primary school where 48 people have been infected.

ANOTHER child has been diagnosed with full-blown TB at a Cork primary school and six more cases of latent infection have been detected, bringing to 47 the number of pupils and staff infected with the disease.

WITH pupils of a Cork primary school set to undergo repeat screening for TB this week, a consultant in respiratory medicine has warned “hidden reservoirs” of the disease may be behind the latest outbreak.

SENIOR health managers declined to discuss at a public forum one of the country’s worst outbreaks of TB in recent years.

THE Health Service Executive (HSE) has been forced to suspend BCG clinics for children in north Cork because staff who normally administer the vaccine have been drafted in for the roll-out of the cervical cancer vaccine.

A TB outbreak at a Cork primary school where 40 people have been infected has exhibited “an extraordinarily high rate of attack” and confounded public health officials who have been unable to identify the source.

THE number of children diagnosed with tuberculosis at a Cork primary school has risen to 37, but the source of infection has still not been found even though screening of pupils and staff is complete.

THE headmaster of a Cork primary school where 25 children have contracted tuberculosis said there is concern in the wider community that the source of infection has not yet been found.

PUBLIC health officials dealing with an outbreak of tuberculosis which has infected 25 children at a Cork school have requested that junior infants due to start school next week be prioritised for vaccination.

Parents of children at a Cork primary school — where the numbers infected with tuberculosis (TB) have risen to 25 — want every child in the school to receive the TB vaccination as a matter of priority.

THE number of primary school children infected with tuberculosis at a Cork school has risen to 25 since screening began over a week ago.

A PRIMARY school forced to defer re-opening because of a TB outbreak will be expected to make up lost days during the remainder of the school year.

AS the screening of 220 pupils and teachers from Ballintemple National School began, there was no sense of panic at St Finbarr’s hospital.

VOLUNTARY screening for tuberculosis (TB) among EU workers in Ireland would help combat the disease that has forced a Cork school to defer re-opening after three pupils were infected.

RESPIRATORY healthcare professionals have called for improved TB screening after it emerged that public health officials are investigating an outbreak of the disease in a Cork school.

MORE than 200 primary school children are to be screened for TB at a Cork school just days before the start of a new term.

A GREAT, bright west-facing extension lifts No 4, The Terrace near Crab Lane national school in Cork a bit out of the ordinary — and brings its floor area up to 1,230 sq ft.

WITH an address like Cork’s Crab Lane, can you afford to do anything by halves?

WHAT you see isn’t what you’ll get with two do-er upper house/sites on opposite sides ends of Cork city.

AN EASY entry into the 2008 property market, and whatever mixed fortunes it brings with it, is this neat and highly saleable two-bed Cork southern suburban mews home.

IT MIGHT be worth up to €400,000 and have all the modern conveniences but because a bus doesn’t stop outside the door, this property has been turned down by a local authority housing applicant.

HAVING sailed around the Mizen on many occasions I am well aware that the small bay between it and Three Castles Head is one of the nastiest and least-overlooked pieces of shoreline in the State.

TREMENDOUS gardens says the brochure and you can’t argue with the description of this corner site, especially as it’s plonked on the corner of the Blackrock Road and Crab Lane.

WOULD someone buy two adjoining Well Road houses just for the sake of a decent-sized site for one new home - even if it cost them €1 million?

THERE’LL be fun and games at Atlanta - but not the USA’s Georgia state capital, host city of a previous Olympic Games.

IT almost has it all: gardens of a quarter of an acre, walled with old limestone boundaries, once an orchard; an address to match, The Paddocks, on Crab Lane. Drawback? You'll have to provide the house yourself.

TWO years' work, renovations and extension, and three happy years residence since, have gone into Vondel, a detached home on the Blackrock Road in Cork.