Tommy Barker says this example of contemporary design, at just 10 years old, benefits from a mature setting on Model Farm Road.

THERE are glimpses of the sea and beaches out at Inchydoney island from this modern-build,called Island View, tucked away out of storms’ way at a back road beyond one of the island’s causeway approaches, at Garranagoleen.

THIS site at Inchydoney island in west Cork, with a mobile home on it, might have escaped the plans for a €200 holiday/second home tax thanks to Government capitulation to lobbying, but whoever takes it on next can expect to factor that coming tax back into their calculations.