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Tommy Barker visits a well-appointed house which has benefited from the care lavished on it by its first owners

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An excellent finish, over three floors with four bedrooms and a contemporary, bright kitchen/family space mark No 6 Southwinds as a family home to view. 

Just needing the stamp of a new owner’s personality is No 3 Willsbrook, up at the front section of the popular Broadale McInerney housing development, past Douglas Golf Club on the Maryborough Hill.

Tommy Barker tees up a spacious family home near Cork’s Douglas Golf Course, with an Augusta address.

Tommy Barker finds a good value home outside Douglas’ ‘halo’ effect.

A great double site is a bonus with this adaptable bungalow home, with its double-digit address, in Cork’s outer suburban Maryborough Hill, above Douglas.

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.

From the Senior Cup to a World Celebrity Pro-Am, it has been quite the journey for Irish PGA professional Brian O’Donovan.

Maryborough, Cork, €385,000

Size: Sq m 212 (2,290 sq ft)

Sq m: 112 (1,200 sq ft)

A 450-acre landbank fringing Cork City and assembled at a cost of over €100m is being sold by Nama for about €7m.

DONIE O’DONOVAN from Bandon and Kevin Byrne of East Cork intend to make little of the oft-expressed modern contention that golf is a young man’s game when they line out for their clubs in the semi-finals of the Bulmers Barton Shield and Irish Junior Cup at Castlebar today.

THERE was a time when Cork’s Maryborough Hill had a couple of small developments and a sprinkling of one-off houses.

SHRUBS aplenty, front and back, come with this detached four-bed home – set to throw some seasonal colour around this Greendale Road home.

GREAT views of Cork city, especially with lights twinkling at night, come from the rear, bay-windowed dining area of 12 Silverlands, a great detached four-bed home of 2,000 sq ft in Maryborough Woods, Cork.

THERE are golfing legends, pioneers of the game such as Harry Varden, Bobby Jones, Ben Hogan, giants such as Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, our own Christy O’Connor Snr, and there are legends in golf, those who – perhaps only within their own parish, within their own club, within their own limited circle – will live forever in local folklore.

Defending champions Leinster were held 6 ½ - 6 ½ by Munster on the second day of the Golfsure sponsored Interprovincial Championships at Douglas Golf Club, while Ulster beat Connacht by 9 ½ - 3 ½ .

THE 2009 Augusta Masters might be recently over, and scooped by Angel Cabrera, but there’s a chance now for more ordinary souls to make the cut at Cork’s Augusta link – thanks to a decline in prices.

THE boss of one of Munster’s biggest house-building companies yesterday rejected rumours his company was in financial trouble.

THE footballs say it all — lying forlornly on the grass on a quiet school morning, they hint at the life that goes on in Augusta Drive on Saturdays, Sundays and long, summer days.

MAJOR planning applications for Cork’s premium residential addresses have been lodged within the last few weeks.

THE Coveney farm and family home at Minane Bridge in Cork is being sold, in a record-making deal worth up to €6 million.