I LOST whatever little — very little — respect I had for Sinn Féin after their disgraceful heckling of Tánaiste Michael McDowell when he was counted out of the Dáil last Saturday.

WHAT you see isn’t what you get with Crown Park Villa. The reality is a tired 100-year-old home, in Cork city’s elevated Montenotte, but it is a house with dreams of a new life.

GETTING better as it goes up: that’s a visitor’s impression at 3 Rockview Terrace, in the old heartland of Cork’s Montenotte.

MANY people have been complaining about The Corrs accepting an honorary MBE. They should get over it.

AMONG the several clichés for buying a first home are phrases like ‘first rung of the ladder’ and ‘getting in at the ground floor.’