Substantial, roomy East Cork home has a double garage for its limo-business vendors, says Tommy Barker.

Sq m: 98 (1,050 sq ft)

The local authority that manages the Jack Lynch tunnel in Cork has been urged to compete against the private sector for the tender to run it as part of a single contract with the Dublin Port tunnel.

IT WAS hailed as an engineering marvel when it opened to traffic in June 1999.

Transport Minister Leo Varadkar is reportedly considering introducing multiple tolls on Dublin's M50 motorway.

THE Port of Cork is to submit a revised plan for a new €50 million container terminal in Ringaskiddy, although not on the same site which was previously refused by Bord Pleanála.

I AGREE with John Fitzgerald (Letters, May 26) about the high cost of car addiction (though I admit that at times they can be useful things).

No 1 Halcon Drive, priced just under €250,000, is a good condition three-bed semi-d in Cork’s Tivoli suburb.

HAVING just sold a Sunday’s Well family home for around €1.7 million, agents Savills HOK have another upper end family home as a new market offering near Cork city.

WHAT’S up in the Garda Traffic Division and where do the planners in the Road Safety Authority actually formulate their plans?

DANNY PATE, a former world under-23 time trial champion and member of the US TIAA-CREF team, inflicted what could prove to be irreparable damage on the peleton when he sprinted up the hill to Cobh Cathedral to win the second stage in this year’s FBD Insurance RAS and claim the raceleader’s yellow jersey.

THEY say it takes three or four attempts at building a house before you get what you want, but the owners of this Killeagh, East Cork home got what they wanted first time around.

OPPONENTS of tolls at the new tunnel which will be built under the river Shannon near Limerick will set out their case at an oral hearing tomorrow in Limerick.

PREPARE to be enchanted by Cregg Olympry, an early Georgian lodge dwelling on the River Blackwater in Cork, with dancer and impresario Michael Flatley a nearby river neighbour at Castle Hyde.

WILL an out-of town developer move far enough south to take on the redevelopment of the Dunkathel estate - and to outbid the handful of locals keen to get their hands on a site for a c300 house scheme plus luxury hotel?

THE owners of one of the most important period houses in Cork are to cut their losses after a bitter planning saga.