Tommy Barker discovers a logical flow to the layout of this carefully designed house.

Tommy Barker visits Glencourt, a century-old harbour-side home.

THE Munster finals of the Irish Mixed Foursomes get under way at Monkstown on Saturday, with Nenagh facing Newcastle West in the first of the semi-finals at 9am.

THE gravity of the spillage of 60,000 gallons of 14pH caustic soda into Monkstown Bay in Cork three hours before high water around midnight on Saturday July 2/Sunday July 3 appears to have escaped the notice of the ADM company and in particular the Environment Protection Agency (EPA), under whose remit the overall responsibility for pollution in the harbour area and waters rests.

WITH queues of cars heading to Ringaskiddy every morning, the chance to beat the rush is offered with the sale of this south Cork property at Shanbally.

LIMERICK Golf Club, represented by Juan Fitzgerald and Aisling Noone, held off stern opposition from 39 other clubs to win the Irish Examiner-sponsored Munster Mixed Foursomes Cup Final at Muskerry yesterday.

MUNSTER clubs are busily involved in staging qualifying rounds for the annual Examiner Amm Amm Tournament which this year is being hosted by Kenmare as part of their Centenary Year celebrations.

THE Irish taxpayer is about to be handed a poisoned chalice — an island property with a clean-up bill likely to cost tens of millions of euro.