Over one dozen lots are expected in Wednesday next’s DNG Munster auction of mainly residential investments, in Cork, Kerry, Limerick and Waterford, along with a number of holiday home investments, some guided from just €10,000 in East Cork.

A woman testified in court yesterday that her ex-partner was stalking her by following her around Cork City — sitting beside her on the bus, hiding behind bushes in a park and, on one day, sending her 72 texts.

Residents of a Cork complex who were expecting to be evicted from their homes have now been told their tenancies will not be terminated this year.

Opposition TDs have urged tenants facing possible eviction from a residential development in Cork City to stay put and resist moves to kick them out.

Hundreds of tenants face losing their homes after receivers moved to sell apartments at a residential development in Cork City.

An architect whose family were effectively evicted from their rented home after five years has called for improved legislation to give tenants greater long-term security.

Tommy Barker reports on a sea-front contemporary, five-bedroomed residence in glorious Glengarriff.

Clodagh Cogley, one of the survivors of the Berkeley balcony collapse, has received an outpouring of public support following her inspiring words about the tragedy which killed six students, injured seven, and left her unable to walk.

The first thing that hits you on entering the Meeting House Restaurant – which opened very quietly before the end of last year – is the noise.

Two brave David’s to talk about this week — David Whelehan of Whelehan’s Wines which opened in December in the old Silver Tassie pub in Loughlinstown on the N11; and Dave Gallgher of Green Man Wines in Terenure which opened last month.

A historic convent in a Cork suburb which has been converted into 27 apartments, including five penthouses, is for sale as one lot guiding €3.75m price tag — nearly 14 years after it left religious order hands.

Trish Dromey says a duplex on Cork city’s Blackrock is finding suitable for interest from first-time buyers but it could also suit an investor portfolio.

Efforts to sell a publicly-owned landbank in Cork — which have been mired in controversy since 2011 — look set to be scrapped again.

Ellie halts her performance of 'Anything Can Happen' to stop a squabble between a group of girls.

IF your getaway to Bali was shunned in favour of Bantry Bay, or trip to the Seychelles postponed (until further notice) for Salthill, don’t despair.

In 1986, Sam Baker was on a train in Peru that was blown up by terrorists. The blast killed the people sitting with him and he had a cut artery, blown-in eardrums and brain damage. This prompted the Texan to write, and to become a singer-songwriter.

RESIDENTS in just 421 unfinished housing developments have been granted a waiver from the property tax, even though there are 466 housing estates around Munster alone where the occupants must live with the dreaded title “ghost estate” — and that is according to the Government’s own figures.

Catherine Fulvio, Ballyknocken Cookery School

ENNISKEANE, CO CORK €165,000

It’s the Snow White story, of course, but through a glass darkly.

AS many readers will know, two earth-like planets were discovered by NASA’s Kepler Mission just before Christmas.

THE man who made headlines last week for hanging Cork flags from his apartment has put his money where his mouth is to help paint his native city red and white.

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THE landlord of Cork city’s newest primary healthcare centre has strongly denied that a methadone clinic is to be established at the Blackrock premises.

Rose Martin says a classic layout fits well with a classy Limerick address.

RESIDENTS of a private housing development have complained after a local authority leased more than 50 neighbouring units for social housing.

Katie Price allegedly threatened to 'cut' a clubber during a drunken night out on her Ibiza holiday, according to UK tabloid reports.

AFICIONADOS of wine from Australia and Spain have reason to raise a glass to the 2007 National Off-Licence Association (NOffLA) Gold Star selection as those countries have made a clean sweep of two key categories.

An Australian diver who was almost swallowed head-first by a huge shark today said he survived by poking the fish in the eye and credited the lead-lined vest he was wearing as saving him from being bitten in half.

LIKE polished silver, gold, blue-green, iridescent, they lie, headless on a platter, the wonderful bounty of the sea.

SEPTEMBER’S selling season and new product launches are in full swing - but the message for first-time buyers is ‘prepare to leave town’.

YOU can’t see The Oaks for the trees at Limerick’s Curragh Chase woods.

HIGH standards prevail in the Highlands in Passage West, where all the neighbours sing from the same hymn sheet: open-plan gardens are clipped to perfection and beds display a profusion of growth.

James Bond director Lee Tamahori and a team from Eon Productions are filiming the next Bond flick, starring Pierce Brosnan, at the world’s largest greenhouse, which lies in a former clay pit near St Austell in Cornwall.

The first six contestants on a new reality TV show were today preparing to survive three months in a snake-infested rainforest.

A family of four escaped injury during a pipe-bomb attack on their home in Co Antrim this morning.