Deputy Ruth Coppinger refers to a "political elite" as if she was not a member herself. Desmond Fitzgerald refers to our "political class".

Tom Parlon, director general of the Construction Federation of Ireland (CFI), said in an RTÉ radio interview that land was half the cost of a new house and that hard-pressed buyers of new houses were paying for land for social housing.

Size: 117 (1,270 sq ft)

Sq m: 117 (1,259sq ft)

BALLINCOLLIG, CORK €200,000

A LARGER than average, three-bed semi has a strong selling point in its great location off the centre of Ballincollig village.

I THOUGHT I was looking at a script of an unaired episode of Father Ted when I read that Bishop Denis Brennan wants parishioners to pay remaining monies owed as a result of compensation claims for sexual abuse in the diocese of Ferns.

A CORONER warned of the dangers of using escalators yesterday after hearing how a simple stumble led to the tragic death of an elderly man.

BACK on the market after a winter break is 69 Beech Road, in Ballincollig’s Muskerry Estate.

LARGE family home, almost 1,500 square feet of it, is new to the market in Ballincollig, Co Cork, through Norma Healy of Sherry FitzGerald.

THE frantic outpourings from the Shannon region have intensified as they see an inevitable move towards an equitable, market-based policy which will finally get rid of the unfair protection for that airport at huge cost to the rest of the country.

THE leader of a gang who organised a savage attack on the former owner of two massage parlours and threatened him for money in the name of the IRA was jailed yesterday for five years.

The leader of a gang who organised a savage attack on the former owner of two massage parlours and threatened him for money in the name of the IRA was jailed today for five years.