An offal spillage forced the closure of one of the county’s busiest roads and triggered traffic chaos last night.

BIG site, small house, and the very best of beach views are all in the mix here in West Cork’s South Ring, by Clonakilty Bay.

A bid to name one of Cork’s busiest roads after the War of Independence group, Cumann na mBan, has hit a speed bump.

Size: 98sq m (1050sq ft)

Separate rush-hour accidents yesterday on either side of the South Ring carriageways almost forced the closure of the Jack Lynch Tunnel in Cork.

Sq m: 92.9 (1000 sq ft)

The opening of two flyovers on Cork’s N40 South Ring Road has swamped the city’s western suburbs with traffic, a report has found.

A motorist has told an inquest into the death of a man who was walking on a dual carriageway when he was struck by a car that he did not have time to stop.

A county councillor is campaigning to have a new greenfield emergency hospital developed on the northside of Cork.

Rose Martin reports on an end-of-terrace three-bedroom property close to city centre

MILLION-euro plus houses at Limeworth are now hovering back down at the half million mark, and that’s for the last new builds remaining.

We scan a selection of trading up homes around the country

EIGHTEEN acres of shoreline open space is the huge attraction with the Jacob’s Island scheme in Cork’s Mahon Point.

YOU could feel like an air traffic controller at Ravakeel, Waterfall — the house is so high you’d imagine touching the undercarriage of a plane on its way to Cork Airport.

BACK in 2000, the Ballincollig bypass was just a blueprint and the new town centre was still a working army barracks.

A CUTE townhouse at 13 Ardfield Road in Grange, hits the Cork starter home market at a reasonable, €239,000.

SEA views can be had from the bedroom floor of Mansfield House, a fine, two-storey property at Crosshaven, Co Cork.

BACK in 2006 a house at Kilbrody, in the Mount Oval Village estate hit the market at €470,000. This week a new entrant in the Rochestown, Cork, scheme is on the market at €475,000. Not bad for buyers.

WHAT a setting. That’s the verdict on this beachside home, in a cove so little used it could be yours alone for much of the year.

GUYSCLIFF is a mark 11 property: the perfectly placed waterside house on South Cork’s Currabinny Road was built on the site of a smaller bungalow.

WHAT do you do when your land gets rezoned and you find yourself with a couple of acres suitable for housing?

ALL set up for hobby-farm use, a more likely outcome than being bought for future development, is assessment of estate agent John Deady as he brings 10 waterview acres by Clonakilty bay to the market.