Long views down over a valley just west of Cork City, overlooking the N71 Cork- Bandon Road by the city’s old ‘liberties’, come with this four-bed bungalow at Tulligmore, Ballinhassig.

Old meets new, and steel meets stone, at this upgraded 125-year-old cottage called Stonehaven.

Tommy Barker says this family home on the edge of the city’s suburbs has a back garden with a country field boundary for a rural connection.

There’s a country setting, but suburban conveniences almost to hand, at this detached home called Belmont.

Extended on both levels, this home has plenty of space both inside and outside, says Tommy Barker.

No flies on kids these days: An app for tracking Santa, a dram of Smithwick’s to send him on his merry way but BETTER WATCH OUT — thanks to relentless public health messaging, even 8-year-olds now know drink driving is a no-no.

House deals in the €700,000-€800,000 price bracket have been agreed in Cork’s environs in recent days, for an immaculate Victorian semi-d on the Blackrock Road, and again at Spur Hill for a 3,250 sq ft modern home on three acres: both houses had featured extensively in these pages, and found bidders and buyers very smartly.

Designs on a high-class, high standard house? Tommy Barker says Bramley Lodge could be the apple of your eye

WILTON, CORK €220,000

BISHOPSTOWN, CORK €525,000

Saorview’s digital roll-out has been extended to include pockets of patchy coverage in West Cork where five existing masts will be upgraded to broadcast the service.

IF YOU think five acres of private gardens (just past Cork City’s suburban boundaries) might be too much to maintain, shame on you: the caretaker-gardener is 82 years and drives his ride-on mower like a boy racer.

BISHOPSTOWN, CORK €325,000

A PRISTINE, four-bedroomed family home in a cul de sac in Cork’s Wilton suburb is a new market arrival with a practical €285,000 asking price via agents Cahalane Skuse.

BEDS to the left, bright living areas to the right, and the city down the hill: that’s Anningdale, in a nutshell.

GARDAÍ have issued a fresh appeal for information about the movements of a red van which was used by the gunman who killed a Cork drugs dealer on Wednesday, January 20.

GARDAÍ searching for the killer of a convicted Cork drugs dealer believe the van used by the gunman avoided main roads during the getaway.

THE best quality materials have been used in the building of this house at the foot of Spur Hill at Doughcloyne in Cork, says auctioneer Jennifer Bermingham, of Noelle Morrison and Associates.

FOUR students were on top of the world after getting eight A1s in their Leaving Certificate yesterday.

A SYSTEM for randomly drug-testing employees, using hair samples, won a national student entrepreneur award yesterday.

A FULLY updated bungalow, on a third of an acre site just west of Cork city, is up for sale with a €340,000 price guide.

SET up on Spur Hill rising out of Wilton and Togher in Cork, two bungalows currently on the market with 100,000 euro in price difference between them offer a flavour of country living and suburban convenience.

TELECOM companies may need to build an extra 1,000 masts nationwide within the next three years.