A 74-year-old man accused of harassment of his neighbour by allegedly blocking a sewer pipe and other actions arising out of a disagreement over a window appeared at Cork District Court yesterday.

A village centre to serve a rapidly-evolving Cork suburban setting with 1,000 homes now provided is proposed for Cork’s southside.

Two Cork bars, one a classic of the old-school, the other a modern bar and restaurant built in 2008 are new to market, being sold as well-trading entities.

A sum of €2,000 in cash that was robbed from a bookmakers in Cork more than seven years ago was finally returned to the owners by order of a court yesterday.

Location and price is good for this three-bed semi, says Trish Dromey.

THE suburbs and city services, as well as further badly-needed new homes, have come out to meet the Ruden Homes’ Matthew Hill development, on the hills south of Cork in recent years.

Tommy Barker finds a superbly finished four bedroomed family home high up on Cork’s Airport Hill.

Munster and Ireland legend Paul O’Connell is Danny Lynch’s favourite player, writes Sam Boland.

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Tommy Barker says this already extended property, Alderbrook, is ready for take-off.

The daughter of an elderly woman whose life was destroyed after a mugging has criticised a judge for handing down a suspended sentence to the mugger, who has more than 80 previous convictions.

More pockets of resistance against the installations of water meters have emerged even as Irish Water has said the rate of installations is still on target.

Anti-water tax campaigners have warned the Government it faces a wave of nationwide blockades after water meter protests spread yesterday.

There is a vacuum in the public perception of the issues surrounding water charges. People are confused because they have not been getting straight talk from the Government, and the various opposition parties have been exploiting the resulting confusion. That was inevitably going to happen in the run-up to elections.

Defiant residents behind the country’s first organised water meter blockade have vowed to maintain their protest after successfully preventing work for an entire day yesterday.

The time may be ripe for residential investors to consider opportunities in regional cities and large towns.

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A Christmas night out at a hotel in Cork ended with one woman pushing another woman down steps, causing her to break her arm in two places.

Ruden Homes is building its way out of a recession, reports Tommy Barker with an increase in new house sales at Lehenaghmore

No 67 Fernwood has the signs of a happy, child-centred family home — and now its owners are upping sticks and trading up, taking on a far older house to do up, with even bigger gardens, in another Cork suburb. They have a bit of work ahead of them in their new project, but what they leave behind at No 67 is a walk-in job for its next occupants.

Ardmore, Waterford €275,000

A mother whose daughter has epilepsy has had to resort to her mobile phone to record seizures, because the hospital units where she could be monitored are closed due to a of lack of funds to staff them.

WATER supplies will be switched off, at nighttime, to thousands of homes in parts of south Cork over the next 10 days as the county council completes essential works.

No 13 North Avenue is easily accessed and well maintained, reports Tommy Barker.

Champion Irish greyhound trainer Paul Hennessy will branch out tomorrow night when he saddles his first two runners at a horse race meeting.

A NEW owner of 4 The Drive, in Lehenaghmore, might want to get stuck into the gardens — because there’s nothing at all to do on the inside.

CARRYING the same asking price as they arrive to market are two different Cork house options. Each priced at €375,000, the offerings are a 1,400 sq ft, dated but decent semi-d with a good, quiet address in Ballincurrig, Douglas, or a larger, 1,600 sq ft, three-bed dormer bungalow high above the city, at Alderbrook, Lehenaghmore off the back of the airport hill.

IN VERY good order, and with a good asking price for its Wilton, Cork city location, is 34 Fernwood Crescent, a three-bed semi-detached home with a €285,000 asking price.

BIG. The family home, Faoi Rún, on a hill fringing Cork city, at Lehenaghmore, is a 4,900 sq ft house, with up to seven bedrooms, and a price of €650,000 with selling agent, Denis A Barrett.

THE view, the view, the view. Cork city’s down in a saucer-like setting, but you have to go up its surrounding hills to really appreciate it. The owners of The Three Gables know it better than most.

A VERDICT of “unascertained death” has been recorded after a bar manager was found dead following after a golf outing.

THE Lee swim took place in Cork city last Saturday. Newspaper photographs showed the swimmers in what looked like clean water. The opposite was the truth.

BUS ÉIREANN willannounce an €18 million package today to transform public transport in Cork over the next three years.

THE number of social houses being built in Cork County Council’s Southern Division can’t keep pace with demand.

LEHENAGHMORE is the next big thing in suburban expansion in Cork city, with huge growth expected in the area over the next five years.

A COTTAGE, at Lehenaghmore, on the fringes of Cork city on a three-quarter acre site, might have been a country home up to recent years, but its proximity to the south ring road and Pouladuff has put it in a development spotlight.

WOODVIEW House is, perhaps unsurprisingly, a home hard to see from the road - the way in is blocked by trees.

THE best quality materials have been used in the building of this house at the foot of Spur Hill at Doughcloyne in Cork, says auctioneer Jennifer Bermingham, of Noelle Morrison and Associates.

A YOUNG man who suffered serious head injured when his friend’s €200 uninsured car crashed, yesterday won a compensation award of €2.5 million.