Snow may have caused the cancellation of an open viewing scheduled for 6 Ronayns Court, Rochestown, but it didn’t dampen the enthusiasm of buyers in acquiring the two-bed apartment.

Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin says a tidal barrier proposal by the Save Cork City (SCC) Group as part of its response to the €140m Cork flood defence scheme needs to be re-examined.

Tommy Barker admires a reasonably-priced home in the scheme just across the Douglas River from Rochestown.

First-time buyers looking for a property in the Cork city area would be wise to extend their reach to this three-bed, says Trish Dromey.

A gruelling new multi-sport adventure race in and around Cork Harbour which includes a kayak to Spike Island will be staged next month.

A first-time buyer with €105,000 to spend might be happy with 29 Mariner’s Quay in Passage West.

IT’S AN island, but more in name than reality — welcome to Rochestown’s Hop Island, a hop, skip and a jump from suburban Cork, from Douglas village, and from the vital, arterial ring road.

Work started this week on a multi-million euro sewage project to end the daily discharge into Cork Harbour of 20 tonnes of raw sewage — the equivalent of three Olympic-size swimming pools.

The sun blazed down on 550 rowers and paddlers who were cheered through Cork harbour and into Cork city as they took on the gruelling task of completing the 10th Rás Mór, Ireland’s number one rowing race.

Four people have been rescued after their boat ran aground in Co Cork last night.

€200m in investments and up to 4,000 marine-centred jobs and new tourism attractions are in Cork Harbour’s pipeline, reports Tommy Barker.

Those prescient advocates who 30 or even 20 years ago warned about how climate change would alter our lives profoundly could not be derided today as they were then. The evidence has become irrefutable, all too regular. Our belated response is reactive rather than proactive and the evidence has also assumed an air of threat that we ignore at our peril.

€395,000

The State spent almost €17m last year keeping 27 troubled children in specialised residential care.

A city is poised to draw down more than €20m in government grants which have been withheld since the completion, eight years ago, of one of the biggest environmental engineering projects in the history of the State.

Heavenly property has many features, says Tommy Barker

Tommy Barker visits a Cork landmark, a truly unique family home

Nine people have been rescued from the water at Lough Mahon in Cork today.

THE housing market might be moving at a snail’s pace, and having a house named after a tortoise mightn’t inspire confidence of a fast sale – but Tortuga could prove to be a surprisingly quick mover.

IT JUST doesn’t photograph well: Greenawn is one of those houses that hides its light under a bushel, and its size and scale under bushes and greenery.

A SUBURB under everyone’s nose has hit the right mark, as a million euro-plus house sale beckons in Cork’s Mahon.

A TOTAL of 250 jobs are to be created by two companies, one of which started manufacturing in a cow shed three years ago.

EVEN the prices have Great Expectations — up to €750,000 for the best apartments — but Havisham House at Rochestown in Co Cork is something to write home about.

A FLURRY of re-sales are on offer in the all-new Jacob’s Island development in Mahon, Cork, in the lead up to Christmas.

A CORK company that develops advanced games for mobile phones plans to raise €1 million in venture capital to fund its expansion, delegates at a major technology investment conference in Dublin heard yesterday.

SOME of the biggest ever house schemes in Cork city and suburbs have moved into gear this week, representing thousands of new homes, and, significantly, a good range of supply just east and west of the city.

THE big fleet had a slow passage in the annual race from Cobh to Blackrock as light winds and frequent rain showers arrived instead of the expected very fresh south easterlies. Indeed the race even had to be shortened to a finish-line a little east of Blackrock Castle; a wise decision with the trip across the two-and-a-half mile stretch of Lough Mahon’s open waters very slow.