We view a selection of starter homes from around the country

I WANT to lie down and watch the trees stipple sunlight on the world, down in the garden with the moon daisies, on a blanket with my book.

IF you can’t afford this week’s stunning Cover Story property inside this issue — perhaps none too surprising as it’s priced at €2.2m — then maybe our modest ‘House of the Week, at less than just 10% of the cost, might fit the bill and budget.

A HSE employee at the centre of a fraud investigation at a Cork City hospital was hospitalised after attacking gardaí and attempting to take his own life.

Plans have been drawn up to make part of Cork City safer by night in an effort to prevent a repeat of a horror attack which led to a Spaniard being hospitalised.

HEARTBROKEN Donncha O’Callaghan lined out for Ireland in New Zealand today just a day after being told his beloved grandmother had died.

THERE’S a lot to be said for living in the city — walk everywhere, no need for a car and everything to hand — from shows, to plays to pubs to night life.

PROTESTERS against the proposed move of all breast cancer services for Cork and Kerry to one site in Cork city have demanded a meeting with cancer chief Professor Tom Keane in a bid to highlight their concerns.

TWO American tourists were hailed as heroes after they jumped into a river and saved a middle-aged woman from drowning.

MINUTES from Cork city centre, Rosehill is a tidy, infill estate off the Old Blackrock road and almost directly across from the South Infirmary.

AS part of a campaign to raise awareness of malignant melanoma members of the Cork camogie and ladies football team visited the Rapid Access Pigmented Lesion Clinic at South Infirmary/Victoria University hospital in Cork recently.

WHERE can you get a modern, five-bed detached house with garden in the heart of Cork city?

DURING a recent weekend break on the Beara Peninsula our cousin Paddy, who is almost 80, was suddenly taken ill.

A SENIOR fireman said it was a miracle people weren’t killed when a steam boiler exploded in the basement of a building in Cork city yesterday.

The BreastCheck cancer screening service is to be rolled out nationwide allowing an extra 130,000 women to be tested, it was confirmed tonight.

A post mortem examination is being carried out on the body of an eight-month-old baby in the South Infirmary in Cork.