With its close proximity to UCC and the city centre, beautiful Buxton Terrace should attract plenty of interest, writes Tommy Barker.

Audrey has been sorting out Cork people for ages

Society shunned them, the State abused them, and the Church exploited them but Ireland has finally laid a welcome mat for the women of the Magdalene laundries.

THE landmark former St Vincent’s Church, in Cork’s Sunday’s Well, plus an adjacent development site, have come to market with estate agent Edward Hanafin, in two lots, each guiding €750,000, or €1.5m for the duo.

She’s been sorting out Cork people for ages, so why not Ask Audrey?

Sorting out Cork people for ages...

A number of ‘features’ that require further archaeological investigation have been discovered at the site of the Sunday’s Well Magdalene Laundry in Cork.

Five units of the Cork City Fire Brigade were needed to tackle a large blaze at the old St Kevin’s unit at the former Our Lady’s Hospital site in Shanakiel.

Donncha Ó Dúlaing, widely known for his hugely popular radio shows Three-O-One, Highways and Byways and Fáilte Isteach, remembers his time in the accounts department at Henry Ford & Son.

Developers of an apartment complex at a former Magdalene Laundry in Cork must carry out an assessment of the “likely occurrence of undocumented burials of children” on the site before planning permission can be granted.

Ronan O’Gara isn’t the first Corkman to make waves in Parisian rugby.

A FORMER church-like Victorian school building converted to offices, next to what’s been used as a Tridentine Church in Cork City’s Shanakiel/Sunday’s Well is up for sale.

SOMETIMES, you have to go backwards to go forwards and in the case of Emoh Ruo the hint is in the name— it’s ‘our home’ in reverse. 

Fears that Munster fly-half Johnny Holland’s career was in jeopardy were confirmed yesterday when the province announced the 25-year-old had been forced to retire with immediate effect.

This two-storey property was built in the mid 1950s, and so will be newer than many of the neighbouring homes, and it has an elevated deck, facing south. 

WHOEVER gets to buy 19 Sunday’s Well Road will have to take a view on it — once they get the view, they’ll get the urge, and the big picture.

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The team line-up for Ireland’s latest World Cup clash against Romania may have been much changed from the opening weekend, but the hordes of travelling fans remain as reliable as old boots, no matter what the occasion.

This graceful, great-order five-bed period des-res has credentials and charm after careful minding and conservation, writes Tommy Barker.

Tommy Barker revisits the one-time home of UCC maths professor George Boole as the 200th anniversary of his birth is celebrated.

A Cork taxi driver has recalled the terrifying moment he was attacked while bringing a group of six men home in the early hours of Sunday morning.

New owners of elevated Sunday’s Well house opened it up within, instead of extending, says Tommy Barker.

Two recent incidents are instructive into how the memory of some lives are valued more than others in this country.

This year was the year of the Big Ask, but of a lot less delivery, in the multi-million euro house sale league.

The 5,500 sq ft Woodlawn, a modernised Georgian up in Sunday’s Well, may be unrivalled in decorative quality and finish. It’s yours for €3.8m.

The draw for the Munster Senior Cup was made last night at the Charleville Park Hotel.

NO road tax. No costly NCT, and you can repair a puncture yourself. Cycling is cheap, reliable transport, perfect for negotiating a city.

A man has pleaded guilty to stealing in the region of €1,650 after being offered the use of a staff toilet at a small city centre cafe where he was having a cup of tea and a pancake.

The Government has been urged to provide special emergency funding to repair one of Cork’s greatest landmarks.

Descendants of workouse and County Home residents buried in unmarked graves in a west Cork cemetery took part in a solemn procession to mark the return of a sacred symbol yesterday.

NOMINATED for ‘best new play’ at the Irish Times Theatre Awards 2014, Mikel Murfi’s one-man show, The Man in the Woman’s Shoes, is a comedy that celebrates oddballs, eccentrics and the plain daft.

Size: 130 sq m + 1 acre site

A ‘stoned’ burglar got into the garage beside a house in Sunday’s Well in Cork in the middle of the night and stole bank documents from a car.

YOU would struggle to find it on a map and it definitely takes a few circuits in the car but the Life Centre in Cork City is, for some early school-leavers, the ultimate destination.

No 7, Shanakiel, measures 1,260 sq ft and costs €198,000. Tommy Barker reports

Today marks the 70th anniversary of sinking of Irish Oak. Historian Ryle Dwyer looks at the bad luck and controversy associated with that ill-fated ship

Gardaí are searching for two masked men who attacked a 41-year-old man with a meat cleaver and hammer as he was preparing to go to work.

A religious order which listed four Magdalene women as being buried in two different locations has amended the headstone.

The stigma and suffering of former residents of the Magdalene Laundries has been “prolonged” by the Government’s failure to apologise for what happened, victims said.

Survivors of Catholic-run workhouses in Ireland are awaiting an apology from state and church over their forced detention in the institutions.

A religious order has refused to offer any explanation as to why four women who died in its care are named as being buried in two different locations.

The vandalised Magdalene grave at Sunday’s Well contains the names of just 30 women who died between 1882 and 1983.

A decision on the possible demolition of a listed former convent in Cork which was gutted by fire now hinges on engineering reports.