Architects, tortoises and spaniels have colonised thisend-terrace Cork city home, writes Tommy Barker.

Slagging between neighbouring apartment dwellers got so out of hand that one of the young men came out of his home with a large butcher’s knife to threaten two others.

THE unpainted render exterior of 6, Egerton Villas, off Military Hill in St Luke’s gives few clues of the light-filled period elegance that lies within this city home.