One of Cork’s best-kept period harbour homes has a rich past and a bright future, says Tommy Barker.

Work on an underwater sewage pipe crossing Cork’s lower harbour will start this year as part of a €117m project to end the daily discharge of thousands of tonnes of raw sewage into the sea.

The Government has sanctioned €1m to help fund an extension of the Cork Harbour Greenway which could be in place within a year.

Controversial plans for a €3.5m greenway in Cork harbour were narrowly passed by members of the county council after fears were raised that elderly walkers could be blown away “like skittles” by cyclists.

Tommy Barker reports on a superb family home which has road, rail and river access for commuting.

A hi-tech treatment plant has ended the daily discharge of almost 4,000 tonnes of raw sewage into Cork Harbour — the equivalent of 20,000 wheelie bins full of raw sewage.

A mobile ice cream van, which sold ice-lollies and cones to children around parks and sports venues, was being used as a cover for a major drugs distribution business, Limerick circuit criminal court heard today.

With multiple times British champion jump jockey Tony McCoy judging the Racehorse to Riding Horse class at last week’s Dublin Horse Show, he chose Forpadydeplasterer, shown by Joanne Quirke, Ashbourne, Co Meath as this year’s winner.

The first blueway for people interested in watersports has been launched in West Cork, while another planned project envisages a greenway which will attract cyclists and walkers.

I refer to your article about Indaver in talks to bury 40,000t of ash at Bottlehill, North of Cork, in April 14th’s Irish Examiner.

With reference to Kinsale Environment Watch’s concerns (Letters, August 25) regarding a directive from Ministers Alan Kelly and Paudie Coffey.

Tommy Barker says now that Cork harbour has rediscovered its mojo, so too will properties like Simla.

Visitors are being urged to use the train if they intend being part of the 10,000 people expected to descend on Cobh, Co Cork, tomorrow to attend the centenary commemoration of the sinking of the Lusitania.

Coláiste Stiofáin Naofa (CSN) will hold it’s Annual Plant Sale on Tuesday and Wednesday May 12,13. 

Kanturk Flower and Garden Club will meet on March 11 in the Temperance Hall Kanturk at 8.00pm. 

Size: Sq m 91 (980 sq ft)

A dog was stabbed 12 times by a man foraging for mushrooms near Monkstown Golf Club and, yesterday, two men gave conflicting accounts of the incident.

Sq m: 84 (900 sq ft approx)

A Victorian property high above Cork harbour pushed out the boat when it was renovated.

Human waste visible in the waters around Cork harbour during the recent good weather has prompted a number of complaints to the Port of Cork[ and Cork County Council from sailors and beach-goers.

A trio of three-beds are for sale with diverse price tags. Tommy Barker reports

NOT only have the boats sailed or sunk, but the tide has run out on a Cork harbour site up for sale, with a lapsed planning for 72 apartments.

There’s a nice sense of age and place to 8, Lucia Place, a Cork harbour home on Strand Road, just as Passage West starts to link up with Glenbrook.

The beauty of this immaculate house isn’t limited to the downstairs, reports Rose Martin

Extended Rosan is ripe for the picking at Lackaroe, Glenbrook, Rose Martin reports

Cork County Council officials are to hold talks with gardaí and landowners in an attempt to get an ‘emergency’ route opened in Cobh.

An unemployed father of eight is calling on Limerick City Council to give his family a bigger house.

An unemployed father of eight is demanding a bigger house from his local authority so he can have more children.

A Cork harbour Georgian period home has great views that haven’t changed much in the past 150 years, Tommy Barker reports

Four-bed Glenbrook house is selling for €325,000, says Tommy Barker.

WHEN you buy a 150-year-old period house you know you’ve got work ahead of you – unless someone has been there and done it all before you.

LIVING right by the sea has its attractions and when the location is the inner harbour of Cork, then gales and blustering winds aren’t going to be a problem.

STANDING on a high site at Ballynoe, Cobh, this modern, red-brick has panoramic views over the lower harbour of Cork city.

MORE heavy rainfall is being predicted for the weekend just 36 hours after flash flooding caused mayhem in sections of the country, and particularly Co Cork.

IT takes two to ... Tanglewood?

GARDA divers have recovered the body of a 33-year-old man whose car had been found earlier in a river in Co Cork.

GARDAÍ are appealing for volunteers to help them search for a missing Polish man who is presumed to have drowned following an accident on a ferry.

NAVAL divers continued to work in extremely murky water yesterday as they searched for the body of a Polish man presumed drowned after the car he was a passenger in went off a cross-river ferry.

A man who was being questioned by gardaí in connection with a car plunging off the cross river ferry in Cork on Sunday night has been released without charge.