The revamped Cork City South East local electoral area represents a daunting challenge for any single

There have been renewed calls for Ireland South MEP Brian Crowley to resign or clarify his position after not voting once in the European Parliament since his re-election four years ago.

A 68-year-old man who was upset about the noise of ball- playing outside his house denied folding back a tea-towel to reveal two steak knives and saying to his neighbour: “Let’s sort this out for once and for all.”

Three men were arrested yesterday and charged with multiple counts of breaking into cars parked south of Cork city. Garda Brian Motyer and Garda Jamie Landers arrested the three and brought them before Cork District Court.

Residents and major industries in Ringaskiddy are united in their opposition to the proposed M28 motorway route as it will sever the Co Cork harbourside village.

Seamus O’Brien was barely a teenager when his brother Pascal arrived back home from seminary one time to usher him and another brother Brendan out the door and on to a train bound for Kingsbridge Station in Dublin.

This one-off property is sure to attract a buyer looking for a unique family home.

Tommy Barker on a country home that has engrossing tales to tell of changing political times and family ties.

A very early bid of the full asking price of €375,000 gives a strong indication of the salability of this four-bed semi at 30 Wheatridge, Maryborough Woods in Douglas.

Tommy Barker visits Limetrees Road.    

A man serving a jail term for conning an 85-year-old woman into getting in to her home to steal her handbag had one year added to that yesterday for his part in a similar crime against an 84-year-old woman.

A hospital fundraising charity is, for the first time, to host a glitzy ball which it hopes will raise enough money to provide a sensory area for children with special needs and sleeping facilities for parents.

It might be a few decades old, but the four-bedroomed semi-detached home at 30 Limetrees Road East is a good ’un, well kept, and with a long, south-facing back garden, says estate agent Brian Olden of Cohalan Downing.

Up towards the front of the Broadale development in Cork’s Maryborough Hill area are the detached, two-storey houses in a section called Willsbrook.

THE GARDENS are just coming into their own at Kingscourt, a detached bungalow amid the blossoms, on a fabulous acre along Cork’s Maryborough Hill, beyond Douglas.

Cork’s longest-running food emporium, Cinnamon Cottage, has come up for sale in its 21st year of cooking and trading.

A one-time showhouse for one section of the large O’Brien and O’Flynn Maryborough Ridge development is for sale now with agents Paul O’Shea and Ann O’Mahony of Sherry FitzGerald: they guide at €375,000 for the four-bed semi-d at No 11 Edgewood.

Sq m: 164 (1,765 sq ft)

Sq m: 69 (750 sq ft)

A ban on property developers who are in Nama from buying back their own loans may eventually be lifted if the agency is still seeking to offload assets prior to being wound up in 2020.

A devoted father who was under huge financial pressure after losing his business took his own life, an inquest heard yesterday.

Cork County Council is embarking on a new plan for the Douglas area aimed at ridding traffic tailbacks and identifying future uses for undeveloped lands.

DANIELLE BOYLE, one of 70 young people presented with a Gaisce Gold medal award yesterday, believes it has been the making of her.

Often derided as evidence of a backward nation, Ireland’s bogs reveal instead that our ancient ancestors were a sophisticated people rich in culture — albeit with a taste for savage ritual killings. Dan Buckley goes back in time

Almost a foot (30cm) of rain in just a few hours renewed flood fears in Australia’s already waterlogged Queensland state today, sending a surging river over its banks and into another large town.

Tommy Barker says Maryborough Woods property has had a brush with genius and altered bedroom tallies, too.

MANY of your readers have expressed concern over the level of support proposed for Irish banks.

JAMES N O’SULLIVAN (Letters, August 17) sees the legal guarantees secured by Ireland at the June European Council as a cynical pretext for another referendum.

ON TUESDAY night the Cork County Board met and dismissed last Sunday’s meeting of players and club officials in Cork as having “no standing” in the rules of the GAA.

DURING his address to the Humbert Summer School, Cardinal Seán Brady expressed exactly the reasons why I was opposed to the Lisbon Treaty.

Tommy Barker admires a rare package in upmarket Douglas.

WITH one down, there’s another along in hot pursuit in Cork’s Limetrees/Maryborough estate for those on the lookout for solid four-bed semis.

IT would seem our politicians have perfected the art of speaking out of both sides of the mouth, especially on issues adversely affecting their constituents.

ONE of the those inner Douglas desirables, in this case a post-war semi in solid but quite original state, will create a bit of excitement among those not afraid to roll up their sleeves - or pay others to do it all for them.

WITHIN minutes of Douglas village, these two houses on Maryborough Hill have the bucolic charms dreamed of by trader-uppers.

Alan Good and Niall Murray