Trish Dromey reports on homes in Glanmire, Rathpeacon, Crossbarry, Glasheen.

A debate has opened up over who should be honoured by having stands named after them at the €70m revamped Pairc Ui Chaoimh.

The legacy of the late Owen O’Callaghan can be seen throughout his native Cork and beyond.

Bizee Bee near Rathcormac is an attractive split-level bungalow with beautiful plant filled gardens on a stream bounded site.

Location: Rochestown, Cork

The National Roads Authority has been slated after briefing Cork’s city councillors on contentious proposals to privatise the management of the Jack Lynch Tunnel.

The National Roads Authority has ruled out the introduction of tolls on the Jack Lynch Tunnel.

With a prime location this semi-d has plenty of potential, Tommy Barker reports

The pristine apartment in the Cois Coille scheme is ideal for those who want a no-fuss base in Cork city, says Tommy Barker.

MAHON peninsula, in Cork harbour, was an unappreciated waterfront asset — until the Lee tunnel came into being, and City Hall sold off large land tracts at this geographic ‘backwater,’ for huge money.

AUCTIONEER Michael Barry is taking an 80-acre holding at Ballinvarrig, Castlelyons, Co Cork, to auction on February 10 — and expects a good response.

IT isn’t often that Taoiseach Brian Cowen gets to give out some good news but today he will announce the opening of the final link in the completion of the M8 motorway between Dublin and Cork.

KNOCKRAHA village is 10 minutes’ drive from the Lee Tunnel and is growing with lots of new housing.

FURTHER reductions in price should entice viewers to no 43 Ross Ard in Upper Glanmire, a large detached property that’s now down to €370,000 to sell.

LONG-STANDING building firm, Crowley Homes of Midleton are offering substantially reduced prices across their line at the moment.

IT was billed as the ‘marathon for everyone’ and it looked like everyone got their skates on – or at least their running shoes – for the Cork City Marathon.

BOUGHT for around €350,000, this two-bed apartment at The Kestrel in Cork’s Jacob’s Island is now on the market at a slashed guide of €200,000.

“CAN you call back, I’m just selling a house?” said builder Alan Bardsley when the Irish Examiner buzzed him on Monday last.

CORK developer Owen O’Callaghan has claimed his long-running dealings with the Mahon Tribunal over the past decade has had a devastating effect on himself and his family.

Tommy Barker admires a rare package in upmarket Douglas.

CALLANAN’S TOWER and the apartments built around it can now speak for itself. Just as well.

HAVING too much ground around you can sometimes be as much of a liability as a blessing: it can sound the death knell of a modest building in cases where the ground is worth more than the dwelling.

BUSINESSMAN Tom Gilmartin yesterday denied inventing his evidence to the Mahon Planning Tribunal because he was jealous of the success of rival Cork-based property developer, Owen O’Callaghan.

Tommy Barker says Jacob Island’s homes are a class apart.

ELECTION squabbles over stamp duty don’t really matter here at 33 Castle Wood in Little Island because it’s pitched right on the money at €317,500.

THOMAS WHELAN (Irish Examiner letters, March 15) uses emotive language in responding to my fears for the future of Shannon airport (Letters, March 10).

LASH out the €600,000 asking price and you have a fine, modern bungalow in a village setting, 20 minutes from Cork city.

IT just goes to show, you can’t judge a house by it’s cover.

JUST two miles from Moorepark and the Fermoy bypass, a 20-acre holding at Ballyclough, Kilworth, is on offer through Micheal Barry of Property Partners Dick Barry & Son.

MID-1900s bungalows north and south of the river Lee, in mature areas, are on offer with about €50,000 between them.

THE guide price will get the callers a-coming, but the numbers of callers that answer will determine how realistic the guide price is.

Rose Martin

SPANKING new and just 15 minutes from the village of Glanmire, outside Cork city, this detached one-off offers roomy accommodation for buyers who want to merge the country life with city jobs, and for whom commuting is not an issue.

AN electronic traffic management system is to be installed at Cork’s newest multi-million shopping centre at Mahon Point.

MINUTES from the Lee Tunnel, this 3/4 bedroomed house at 16, Oakfield Park, Glanmire is on offer at the moment through Terence O’Leary of Property Partners, O’Mahony Walsh.

THERE are just 34 detached houses in Orchard Manor, Glanmire, and number 29 is new to the market this week with Diarmuid Dooley of Dooley and Howard.

THIS is the ideal lad or laddette pad - a stone-built coach house on three acres close enough to Cork city, but not too close.

Rose Martin is impressed by this large residence at Weaver’s Lane, Rathcooney.

PROPERTY developer Tom Gilmartin has accused business rival Owen O’Callaghan of faking a document supplied to the Mahon Tribunal.

A HOUSE with a very good site and a location almost at the Lee Tunnel, plus an asking price of €280,000 all add up to a very attractive package.

THIS estate of three-year-old houses in Glounthaune is not, as the name suggests, next to the harbour, but rather towers over it.