I never dreamed that I could be anything as fabulous as a performer. It was beyond my wildest dreams.

A first-time buyer with €105,000 to spend might be happy with 29 Mariner’s Quay in Passage West.

Opel has not ruled out a recall of thousands of its Zafira family cars after one of the vehicles burst into flames in Passage West, Co Cork.

Tommy Barker enjoys the extravagant garden space and sun room of this new-to-market four-bed semi-detached house in Passage West.

A survey this week by Real Estate Alliance indicates that the average price for an Irish three-bed semi-d is €179,981: it noted that this house type had gone up 21% in value within the past 12 months, and by 24% in Dublin.

Sq m: 134 (1,450 sq ft)

A man has been jailed for life for murdering a woman he had been "an item" with for three months.

Nine lives is a good innings in anyone’s language. But this furry feline is set to break a world record after pussy-footing her way to within a whisker of the quarter of a century mark.

€395,000

A routine eye test saved her sight — and possibly even her life.

This week street trend meets Tabitha Smith and Rebecca Cassidy, both from Cork.

GARDAÍ stopped a car near the Jack Lynch tunnel as it arrived in Cork with €215,000 worth of cannabis in the boot and yesterday the man responsible for the shipment was jailed for six years.

YES, it was a website misprint: prices might be slashed all over the shop, but 9 Toureen Terrace — the family home of an acclaimed BBC documentary film-maker, the late Philip Donnellan — was never going to sell for e49,000.

MARINER’S VIEW is the only house of its kind in an enclave of townhouses and apartments in Passage West, Co Cork.

HUNDREDS of primary school students took to the streets of Cork yesterday to highlight broken Government promises on school building projects.

IT IS their field of dreams... but they’ve been waiting about 10 years for it to become a reality.

EARLIER this week the plight of Glenville National School was highlighted where, just like the situation in hundreds of other communities across the country, the local school is no longer capable of providing the service it, and everyone involved with it, would wish.

CAMPAIGNERS fighting for a new school to replace the existing structure, which has been described as a potential death trap by fire officers, vowed yesterday to take their fight all the way to Leinster House.

NONE of the pupils who were at Star of the Sea National School when a new building was promised are still attending classes there.

Gardaí in Cork are questioning a man in connection with a fatal hit-and-run on the outskirts of the city yesterday evening.