A leading serviced office space provider has recruited a Russian seamstress living in Direct Provision as part of their green initiative.

Skibbereen-based auctioneer Pat Maguire should be reasonably confident of a good deal of interest in a 44-acre non-residential holding that has just come on the market.

Two dozen properties hit the ‘Big Note’ in 2019, more than double the amount of the previous year in Cork, writes Tommy Barker

C’mere, what’s the story with liking someone from Dublin? Myself and the old doll are in Benalmadena and we’ve made drinking buddies with this couple from Clondalkin.

With its farm home authenticity, Tommy Barker says Vale Cottage is a style-steal at €285,000 Mill Cove, Rosscarbery, West Cork

Gardaí in West Cork are investigating the death of a retired member of the Force whose body was found in the early hours of this morning near his home in Glandore.

High Island lies about 2km off Squince Harbour which is about halfway between the lengthy inlets of Glandore Harbour and Castlehaven Harbour in West Cork.

A family who discovered their rented home of six years was purportedly rented to another man who refused to let them in are now back in the property pending the outcome of a dispute over their tenancy, the High Court has heard

There have been fresh calls for new sentencing guidelines for sex offences after a priest who sexually assaulted a little girl during her First Confession was given a suspended jail term.

The Coach House replacement has a cool, calm and very contemporary feel, writes Tommy Barker.        

Like all the best Irish antiquarian sites, there’s very little brouhaha about it on the road, writes Colm O’Regan.

This foreshore property in a stunning West Cork harbour setting has a long and varied sales history and is now back up for grabs, better than ever before. Back, too, the sort of value it had in 2003, guided at €900,000, writes Tommy Barker. 

The tours will be attractive to tourists — but will also woo locals who may not be so familiar with farm life

An already storm-battered Cork City avoided flooding overnight but a weather warning remains in place for today.

Irish Water is working to restore services to thousands of homes and businesses around Cork who still don’t have a supply.

Compared with the west coast, the south coast has a mere smattering of islands. From Hook Head in Co Wexford to Cape Clear in Co Cork, there are a few clusters of islands at Glandore, Cork Harbour, and Kilmore Quay, writes Dan MacCarthy. 

A blend of history and tradition plus a more relaxed approach to racing will all be part of next week’s Cantor Fitzgerald Glandore Classics that is on course for a record entry at its 25th edition.

A West Cork delight, says Tommy Barker

Trish Dromey admires a West Cork waterside idyll which has been upgraded and extended with fine style

Maritime-themed Radharc is ship-shape and is sure to attract attention from sailors and landlubbers alike, writes Tommy Barker

Although Donagh Kelly’s debut in a Ford Fiesta R5 lasted just shy of the halfway mark in the Grizedale Rally in Cumbria, the Donegal driver was impressed with the car and has vowed to give it consideration in his plans for next season.

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There are signs now though that rural Ireland has lots of fight in it yet, writes Fergus Finlay.

It’s still more than two weeks away but accommodation in the West Cork town of Clonakilty is already virtually booked out amid feverish preparations for the arrival of a major race which will bring more than 400 visitors to the town.

Despite the lack of basic medical equipment and drugs in his native Senegal, neurosurgeon Seydou Badiane treats everyone he can, says Rita de Brún

Former press baron Tony O’Reilly is understood to have sold some of his art collection, with a number of works having gone under the hammer at auction last week.

Tommy Barker visits The Mall House in Kinsale and sees a masterful, modernised restoration project    

A British peer and former 10 Downing St adviser to Gordon Brown, Wilf Stevenson, has just bought the West Cork home of former AIB chief executive David Duffy, Glebe House, for close to €2.5m.

Some are household names, others have been overlooked but a move is on to honour, as a group, all those from the West Cork region who fought in Dublin during the Easter Rising.

Sterling and dollar strength is delivering a boon in sales, says country homes estate agent Michael H Daniels.