Having opened a €3m Avoca store in Dunboyne, Co Meath, just this week, a Cork Avoca is next in line for the expansionist, upmarket Irish food and household product company.

Got an issue? Let Audrey sort it out.

There should be wide interest, from all sectors, on No 40, Clareville Estate. 

Owen O’Callaghan’s planning application for another major office development on Cork’s south quays has been lodged.

This three-bed bungalow by Cork’s Lough and a SuperValu takes up just one-twentieth of its site — so, there must be scope to do more with it?

Lovely Lislee has had lots of work done, says Tommy Barker.

Tommy Barker says a suburban house benefits from space — in and out.

Pouladuff, Cork City €170,000

Pouladuff Road, Cork city €280,000

Carrying the sylvan-sounding name of Woodbine Chateau is this fascinating 1950s bungalow, near the Lough on Cork’s Pouladuff Road — and it’s well worth a peek.

TWO Cork bars sales, one in the city, the other in Monkstown, have just been confirmed as the licensed market finally shows some signs of movement, albeit at a very low price level.

CORK CITY €45/65,000

Gardaí are preparing a file for the DPP after releasing a man following the seizure in Cork of cannabis weed with an estimated street value of €120,000.

Gardaí in Cork have seized €120,000 worth of cannabis, it has been revealed.

Revenue’s Customs Service officers, monitoring the illegal importation of cigarettes, hit an “ecstasy jackpot” when they tracked the contraband to a house in Cork city.

In Cork, the Tramore Road in Togher is blocked due to an incident east of the Pouladuff Road junction.

OVENS, CORK €199,000

GARDA ballistics experts are examining a loaded sawn-off double-barrel shotgun, found dumped in a bin on the southside of Cork city, to see if had been fired in previous crimes.

BUILDING work on a €16 million national maritime and energy research centre is to begin in Cork within months.

A MAN who sexually assaulted a 14-year-old boy less than half his age on the day he met him on a Bebo chatroom has been jailed for 18 months.

CORK is on a remarkable Lottery winning streak with more than €26 million in prizes having been collected in the county since the start of the year.

A 19-YEAR-OLD Co Kerry man is alleged to have attempted to steal €4,000 from an octogenarian.

A LOT of the older properties around Cork’s Lough require work when purchased — but not ‘Lislee’ at 3 St Mary’s Villas, Pouladuff Road.

WHEN it comes to the recent revelations coming out of Cork University Hospital, I am inclined to believe the good doctor rather than our health minister who, after all, was a cabinet colleague of a Taoiseach who won big money on the horses.

A SIDE entrance to a big back garden, a super-convenient Cork city southside location, and an asking price of €300,000 will all help drive No 64, Connolly Park to a sale.

I WISH to congratulate RTÉ and the participating historians for its recent Hidden History series, in particular the Burning of Cork programme.

LANDSCAPE PARK is another of those discrete locations in Cork city: mature and with some lovely, detached houses, it’s within a brisk walk of the city and five minutes from the Lough.