With its Irish name meaning fort, and named after Dingle in Kerry, this house called Daingean is in as good an old, suburban setting as you’ll find in Cork.

A setting mid-way along Rosebank, between the two Douglas Roads, and within a walk of the city centre, and Douglas village, should draw keen family trading interest to Redthorn.

THERE’S something special — in fact, lots special — about the great family home called Ard na Gréine, which bookends the Rosebank estate, located between the main and south Douglas roads in Cork’s suburbs.

Oil giant Chevron is to cut 225 jobs in Aberdeen as it reorganises its North Sea operations.

Size: Sq m 232 (2,500 sq ft)

It is astonishing that Lynne Kelleher has blithely announced (Irish Examiner, Jan 2) more prophecies from weather ‘guru’ Ken Ring, considering his wild inaccuracy. Does Ms Kelleher check Mr Ring’s forecasts against the outcomes?

THE annual Michael Collins commemoration will come in for particular attention this year because it’s the 90th anniversary, and the Taoiseach will be the orator.

Popular style of house which has received an ongoing interest from buyers Tommy Barker reports

A GREAT, green and lush back garden comes with Villa Maria – a three-bed semi-d with original interiors, yet also in very well tended condition.

WITH the last Laburnum house sale going €20,000 to €30,000 over the asking price, the omens may be good for the latest offering in the Cork suburb.

TWO Douglas semis-ds, in strong selling locations, have added extras in their back gardens, as the autumn selling seasons slows further.

TUCKED into a corner of the salubrious cul de sac Douglas estate of Ballincurrig is Gartan, a much-improved upon semi-d with four bedrooms.

WREATHED in mock orange blossom, Melody, Rosebank, is an early summer bloomer for the property market.

A schoolboy, his father and six other crewmen were presumed dead tonight after rescuers called off the search for survivors of a capsized oil rig vessel.

A FULL-ON southerly aspect to the front and a back garden which isn’t overlooked are some of the attributes of 5 Rosebank, a Douglas semi-d, off the main road by the swimming pool entrance to the estate.

DEPENDING on your point of view, Arlinstown, Ballinhassig, is either the middle of nowhere, or the centre of a small universe.

THERE are perhaps five residential estates laid out between the parallel front and back Douglas roads, and houses between them are fast growing in demand and value.

DAMIAN BYRNE believes that the Good Friday Agreement has been a failure because it was a ‘compromise’ and failed to resolve ‘once and for all the crucial issues of sovereignty and democracy that went to the heart of the conflict’ (The Irish Examiner, August 1).