This house was a labour of love and that ethos shines through, Tommy Barker reports

It was a dawn chorus with a difference as a city welcomed summer — and the start of an international five-day festival of choral music.

The fairest of views can be had from this Shandon-view home, says Tommy Barker

IT mightn’t be “the only Aga on the northside,” as its owner once humorously quipped, but the old range cooker midships here certainly helps anchor 35 Popes Quay to its past.

ONE of Cork city’s most venerable hills now has bookmarks of exceptional note, separated in time by almost 180 years.

FOR five days Cork has been alive to the sound of music as more than 4,000 choristers took to the stage, pew, platform and even the streets to bring the beauty of choral singing to the city.

THE man whose crime-fighting work while head of the state’s forensic science lab nearly cost him his life will be honoured tonight for bravery.

WHAT was a happy and bustling family home is now an affordable Cork city property option for another generation of occupiers as it comes up for sale.

AT the funeral Mass of Máirín Lynch in Cork’s North Cathedral yesterday, an old friend flicked through a small photo album and fought back tears.