It seems like it’s missing a few vowels, but this home has just about everything else, writes Tommy Barker.

Peter Dowdall on two books that are well worth their place on any gardener’s bookshelf this season

A proposed €180m motorway linking Cork City to Ringaskiddy will be “going into the bedrooms” of residents living along the route, Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin told a planning hearing yesterday.

THE love affair between Leonard Cohen and Ireland blossomed late but endured until the end, writes Ed Power

House sales in a solid, though older, suburban estate like Browningstown in Douglas show the pace of house price inflation/recovery over the past five years.

Tommy Barker finds a good value home outside Douglas’ ‘halo’ effect.

The Coalition’s nakedly blatant electioneering as they lapped it up in Lissadell proves they are no different from the last shower and, sadly, their chicken, opportunist decisions will as ever come home to wreck the roost, writes Shaun Connolly

It was a dream location for a meeting but might be the last day out so to speak before Enda and Joan prepare for their Second Coming.

A raft of new proposals to “enhance” parental leave, extend free pre-school education, and “reform” State aid to young families are expected to be announced by the Government today.

A judge has decided that charges against a man for alleged harassment via social media are too serious to be dealt with at Cork District Court.

There’s a bit of style to the back extension of 10, Maryborough Heights, a family home in this long-bedded down estate within Lissadell, a short up-hill haul from Cork’s Douglas village.

It’s getting harder to get good, clean and well-located three-beds under the €200k mark, so there’s going to be bidding interest in 74 Maryborough Court, priced at €185,000.

Size: 130sq m (1,400sq ft)

Former billionaire Anthony O’Reilly lost a court bid to postpone the registration and execution of a €22.6m judgment against him for another six months.

The Taoiseach will formally reopen Lissadell House as a tourism attraction on Friday, following its four-year closure during a marathon €10m legal battle.

The owners of the historic Lissadell estate have launched a furious attack on Sligo County Council which they defeated in a multi-million euro row over a right-of-way.

Sligo County Council is facing a bill of several million euro after the Supreme Court ordered it to pay most of the costs of the long and bitter legal row over public rights of way across the historic Lissadell estate in Co Sligo.

Sligo County Council has been ordered to pay most of the costs arising from a multi-million euro legal action over a public rights of way row at the historic Lissadell Estate.

Sligo councillors yesterday attacked their officials and legal advisors for refusing to tell them why they went to court over rights of way at Lissadell House.

The environment minister has confirmed that the local government official who presided over Sligo County Council’s Lissadell court saga has walked off with a pension lump sum payment of over €250,000.

Sligo County Council may have to fork out several million euro in legal costs after the owners of the Lissadell estate won a unanimous Supreme Court ruling that there are no public rights of way across four avenues through the historic grounds.

The owners of the historic Lissadell Estate have won an appeal against a finding that rights of way exist on the property.

Room to expand and room for imagination, reports Tommy Barker.

COBH, CO CORK €160,000

BALLYVOLANE, CORK CITY €125,000

FEW artists have aged as gracefully as Leonard Cohen.

A vast red tide of algae threatening the multimillion-euro shellfish industry on the Atlantic seaboard is being compounded by a seven-year bureaucratic delay.

Plans for a Leonard Cohen extravaganza at Lissadell House this year have been scuppered over a row about rights of way through the estate, an international promoter has said.

Plans for a Leonard Cohen extravaganza at Lissadell House this year have been scuppered over a row about rights of way through the estate, according to an international promoter.

Tara Sheridan has beaten cancer four times and is preparing to go naked for her third “Dip in the Nip” in a campaign to raise funds to help fight the disease.

Two houses are on offer in the same part of the mature Cork suburb, writes Tommy Barker

HOW dare Brendan O’Connor insult Michael D Higgins on his RTÉ show.

THE owners of Lissadell House have secured it with barbed wire wrapped around poles and there are boulders blockading access to the Yeats Museum in a separate coach-house.

AFTER spending more than €13 million on the 410-acre estate they bought in 2003, the owners of Sligo’s Lissadell House yesterday looked set to appeal a High Court decision that public rights of way exist across the historic grounds.

A decision is expected today in the long-running legal row over public rights of way at the Lissadell estate in Sligo.

I MUST say my blood boiled when I saw the ministerial Mercs and Audis rolling into Farmleigh last bank holiday Monday.

HUNDREDS of furious Westlife fans didn’t get home until 3am after a major traffic foul-up at the weekend concert at Lissadell, Co Sligo.

WESTLIFE took to the stage last night at Lissadell House as part of a three- day music weekend in Sligo.

BUILDERS don’t tend to travel too far from their natural bailiwick – Munster’s house builders tend to stick to the cities and counties they are most familiar with, and can service/develop with ‘a man in a van’