Property needs work, but Douglas location is super, Tommy Barker reports

BALLYVOLANE, CORK CITY €125,000

Douglas, Cork €267,500

WATER supplies will be switched off, at nighttime, to thousands of homes in parts of south Cork over the next 10 days as the county council completes essential works.

THE owners of Ballybrack can predict the response of first-time callers to their family home. “It’s ‘I had no idea this was here, it’s like being in the countryside’,” they say.

DOUGLAS, CORK

AS a former outbound salesperson, I am familiar with expense claims. At its simplest, when you travel you spend your own money on hotels, meals, petrol, etc, collect every receipt and then at month’s end you fill out an expenses claim form with a receipt to match every line item listed.

IN response to Michael O’Shea of the Irish Heart Foundation regarding cigarette smuggling into Ireland (Letters, April 23), the Minister for Finance is perfectly correct when he states it is the result of high taxation on cigarettes.

HAVING read the Lisbon Treaty cover to cover and followed the story of it from its inception, I understood it would not be passed unless it was unanimous, ie, every member state voted in favour of it.

IT was interesting recently to hear Foreign Minister Micheál Martin on the radio telling us the minimum wage of €8.65 an hour must be open to review and, by implication, could be lowered. Doubtless he himself will have an input to that decision.

AS budget time rolls around again, the usual phobic anti-smokers are calling for an increase in the price of cigarettes.

THE Government’s bailout of the banks is difficult to understand.

I HAVE worked with young people for the best part of 20 years. During this time, I have come across many issues that gave cause for worry and concern both from the point of view of individuals and society.

THE judge’s direction to the jury in the Nigerian circumcision case was simply amazing (Irish Examiner, October 8). They were not to judge the defendant with any “white, western values”.

DOES anyone in the Cork city council roads department have a whit of commonsense?

NEIGHBOURS in a quiet Cork estate were scrubbing blood off the pavements after the stabbing of two young men yesterday.

Two men have been hospitalised following a machete attack in Cork in the early hours of this morning.

DOUGLAS properties are always in high demand and the sale of a detached house within walking distance of the village should draw good interest for auctioneer Terence O’Leary of O’Mahony Walsh and Associates.