New chapters beckon at the premises of one of Cork City’s longest-established bookshops, Connolly’s, as owner Adrian Connolly prepares to retire after decades dealing in old and rare books, new books, and records.

Tommy Barker is stone-mad about a pitch-perfect, quirky and quality city retreat

CLOSE to the long shadows of one of Cork city’s oldest pieces of architecture, the 13th century Red Abbey, is Margaret Street, where houses built in the old city marsh area are still standing proud, 250 years after construction.

IT’S perfect from the entrance hall to the back garden — that’s the summary of 14 Yewlands given by selling agent Anne-Marie Kennedy of Lisney.