The death of Michael Hayes, president of Mary Immaculate College (MIC) in Limerick, occurred at the weekend.

Tommy Barker finds a Monkstown home with gardens every bit as good as the interiors.

This two-storey property was built in the mid 1950s, and so will be newer than many of the neighbouring homes, and it has an elevated deck, facing south. 

There’s an appeal to home hunters either end of a long spectrum, at the end of a short terrace, at Cork city’s Shanakiel suburb by the 1870’s Gothic revival church St Mary’s.

Tommy Barker revisits the one-time home of UCC maths professor George Boole as the 200th anniversary of his birth is celebrated.

The National Children’s Hospital should be renamed the Dublin Children’s Hospital as it should not be sited in a city centre location if it’s to cater for all the country..

A billion euro was taken in fish from Irish waters last year, according to the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, with 88% of catches taken by foreign vessels. 

We can easily sympathise with the frustration of livestock farmers at the “stand back” attitude of Minister Coveney to the beef industry crisis. (Irish Examiner, August 28). 

Mickey Ned O’Sullivan was the first footballer to score a goal in Páirc Uí Chaoimh and all going well was meant to be coaching the Kerry minors on the last day the old ground hosted a Munster football final as well.

How sad to hear the last sea fisherman (Conor O’Drisceoil) on Cape Clear is giving up.

We believe the Irish government will get € 1.4bn as a once-off payment for the sale of an Bord Gáis.

Price: €295,000

Over the course of almost half a century, Liam Sammon has been in service to Galway football. Now he hopes a new generation can restore county pride.

Auckland it ain’t but Tommy Barker finds a peach named after a beach in a lofty location in Ireland’s southern hemisphere

Auckland it ain’t but Tommy Barker finds a peach named after a beach in a lofty location in Ireland’s southern hemisphere

It’s been quite a year in the life of Barry Solan, one which has brought him all around the world and occasionally the top of it too.

One of Ireland’s top athletics chiefs admits to having concerns about Derval O’Rourke’s readiness for the Olympic Games following a betting scandal involving boyfriend Peter O’Leary.

And so it begins.

No 39 Monastery Avenue is within an easy stroll of city centre Tommy Barker reports

An architect’s stand-out home uses every inch of space to maximum effect, and it’s clean-cut look is almost monastic writes Rose Martin

THIS is the second time around for Killegney, a large, detached house in a sunny corner of Strawberry Hill in Cork city.

MONKS and nuns were frisked by police yesterday as crowds turned out for the Pope’s first public engagement on English soil.

HE’S reinvented himself and hung in there when few others believed it was worth his while. So is Clyda’s Clydesdale Paudie Kissane finally about to get his just reward? He spoke to sports editor Tony Leen

YOUR leader of July 4 highlights our inadequate resources to deal with drug smuggling.

SHANAKIEL Court in Sunday’s Well is a bit hard to find if you don’t know the area.

SLOW FOOD Ireland recently ran an art competition for Cork schools to raise awareness of the Cork Edible School Gardens Project.

YEARS ago there was a large map of Ireland in Heuston Station, Dublin, showing the railway lines of Ireland. All the flashing bulbs ran towards Dublin. Things don’t change.

Tommy Barker profiles a development of attractive new apartments.

QUB 1-9, UUJ 1-8

MOVING up in the literal and social sense — that’s what’s on offer at 5, Shanakiel Court in Sunday’s Well where one house in a group of just six on Strawberry Hill has just come on the market.

Rose Martin

A MOTHER spoke yesterday of how she feared a disaster at a proposed controversial toxic incinerator plant.

ANDY Scollick’s letter headlined ‘Fischler on fish’ (Irish Examiner, Nov 15) uses many fishy phrases and appears to suggest Ireland’s minister is anti-reform.