An Irish golfer holidaying in Spain had the shaft of a golf club embedded in the back of his head when a Spanish taxi went out of control and somersaulted into a ravine, the Circuit Civil Court was told yesterday.

Tommy Barker on an architect-designed courtyard home on the outskirts of a booming tourist hotspot.

OVER 200 years after it was first laid out, Clonakilty’s Emmet Square is back with a bang, and historical resonances.

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.

Tommy Barker visits Ilen River bank home of departing banker, AIB’s Chief Executive David Duffy, after its latest €1m-plus drop.

Location: Size: 93 (1,000 sq ft)

A period house with multiple features is a real beauty, writes Tommy Barker

We view a selection of trading up homes from around the country.

Fine food fare at the fiddle festival

AIB chief executive David Duffy has put his family home in West Cork up for sale for an undisclosed sum, likely to be €4m-€5m.

A stunning Victorian home is back on the market after 27 years care. Tommy Barker finds some divine inspiration in the Old Rectory.

AT the end of a beautiful West Cork peninsula, a simple plaque marks the site of a former industrial school that housed inmates known locally as ‘blue legs.’

A 20-year-old man is due to appear before Dublin District Court this morning, charged in connection with a firearms incident which took place in Crumlin on Thursday.

A SALVAGE crew righted the stricken super yacht Rambler 100 last night after a painstaking, day-long operation off the south coast.

Good location, great value

WITH all the signs of a thoughtful, careful build, Glebe House, in Cratloe, is a large, ready-to-move-into family home for a mid-west buyer. It is selling for €700,000.

THE best goods, in small packages: the motto comes to mind when it comes to No 4, Glebe Gardens, in a Clonakilty oasis setting.

YOU get ‘all the fruit’ thrown in, at Glebe House Gardens, an upmarket niche townhouse scheme behind the architectural timepiece Emmet Square, in West Cork’s Clonakilty.

FOR a selection of noodles try Mr Bell’s stall in the English Market in Cork, the Asia Market at 18 Drury St and the Oriental Emporium at 25 South Great Georges St, both in Dublin 2.

Tommy Barker profiles a niche scheme of eight two-bed homes being aimed at retirees.

ONE of the best known private nursing homes in Limerick has decided to close down for business reasons.

CLONAKILTY’S Glebe House, on the town’s landmark Emmet Square, has had its Easter Rising.

EVEN the name Blair's Cove, sounds faintly exotic. It could easily be some Antipodean sun-kissed beach-spot, but Blair's Cove, on the shoreline of Dunmanus Bay is in west Cork, on five peninsular acres of Irish coastline.

JUST how do you price sites by the sea in West Cork, particularly following a couple of striking results in the Rosscarbery/Clonakilty area?

A HOUSE in Skibbereen's rural 'millionaire's row' is up for sale, at a price a bit less than a millionaire's ransom; over €450,000 is being sought for Glebe Marsh.

WITH Cork city and environs getting ready for Capital of Culture status in a year’s time, 2005, the city’s physical realm really had a feel of being a work in progress during 2003.

THERE’S plenty to potter around with at The Glebe, Kilmahon, in Shanagarry in Cork, the home of the Pearce family of craft workers and potters and set to leave family hands after half a century.

IT’S not often period properties with land come on the market at an affordable level. If they do, they usually require lots of hard graft and an injection of huge sums of money to make them right again.