Tommy Barker hears this three-bed 1,140 sq ft, after a single story add-on, has a full back wall of glass in the modern kitchen/diner

A plumber with a gambling problem was jailed for eight months for charging a woman more than €3,000 to install a bathroom when all he did was dig a small hole in the footpath.

OLDER in style, and on a road where there’s been little change since houses were built on it in the 1930s (many of the occupants are originals too!) is 33 Avocaville, semi-detached family home on St Anne’s Drive, in Cork’s Montenotte.