The family of a 62-year-old operator of a Cork cleaning company, jailed for two years after admitting tax offences amounting to hundreds of thousands of euro, burst into tears at his sentencing yesterday.

IT’S a big, new house on a half acre site in one of Cork’s best-kept-secret addresses – so that gives no 3 Tower Hill at Kilcoolishal a head start in a competitive market.

WAY, way more grounds, for way, way less cash, are now offered at the big family home Gleann Alainn, at Kilcoolishal, Glanmire, just east of Cork city.

IT’S known as Millionaire’s Row locally and it’s easy to see why — Kilcoolishal in Cork’s Glounthaune is a secret little enclave on the rim of the city.

THE railway never reached up the Glounthane hill to Kilcoolishal, or the fine family home Glean Alainn, but bits of it now grace this house and grounds.

PLANNING permission was granted yesterday by Cork County Council for a 204-house development in Crosshaven, while an application was received for an equally large development in Castlemartyr.

PERMISSION has been granted for an estimated €100 million housing project in one of Cork’s largest satellite towns.

THE neighbourhood woodland squirrel was one of the impromptu attractions when a house at Kilcoolishal, Glanmire, almost doubled its guide price last year.

THE Georgian villa Mount Patrick wears its years well — almost two centuries of age.