A selection of starter homes from around the country

THE Minister for the Environment John Gormley has compared being in Government to being in an asylum.

ENTERPRISE Minister Batt O’Keeffe said we had to play poker with our IMF/ECB visitors.

SO 40% of us have a maths problem.

A FIVE-BED detached house in the Douglas area of Cork for under €400,000? The reasons are several, but one is that you’ll need to do work to 11 Kingsford Park.

A brain damaged woman who claimed her injuries were caused as a result of the mismanagement of her epilepsey has settled her action against the HSE for €2.5m.

HEALTH Minister Mary Harney wants to rap medical card-holders with a ‘50 Cent’ charge. Hip-hop. Another discordant note for our smart economy?

YOUR columnist Matt Cooper (May 22) says he received “quite a few letters of complaint” following publication last year of an article on the Christian Brothers.

I WAS a pupil at North Monastery CBS, Cork — a ‘Mon boy’ — from 1954 to 1964 and, like your columnist Matt Cooper (May 9), the Christian Brothers left their mark on me.

RED-BRICK Georgian-style, the detached houses at Kingsford in Cork hit a certain style button for those who like their homes with a bit of balance and symmetry.

Tommy Barker says this suburban home hints at loads of goodies inside.

KINGSFORD PARK in Douglas is the sort of place you don’t stumble across unless you go looking for it, but when houses here hit the market people marvel about its privacy.

IT was with incredulity that I read a recent letter decrying the cost of rounding up illegal immigrants and that this was such a waste of taxpayers money.