The daughter of a man whose body was recovered from the River Lee yesterday, almost a month after he was reported missing, has issued an emotional thank you to all who helped in the search.

Carol O’Callaghan looks to woven softness on floors as winter looms.

A sun-washed viewing terrace is the opener to country house style off Cork’s Lee Road. Rose Martin reports.

On the 200th anniversary of The Battle of Waterloo, Carlow’s close connections to the victorious Duke of Wellington are of note. 

In 1951, 14,000 salmon were caught on the River Lee between the draught nets and rods. In 1957, the inniscarra Hydro Scheme opened to generate electricity. In 1961, 141 salmon were caught.

Sq m: 370 (4,000 sq ft)

Fitzgerald Park on Cork’s Mardyke is once again open fully to the public in all its floral and artistic glory, flanked by Diarmuid Gavin’s controversial Sky Garden and the restored Fr Mathew Fountain.

It’s all about the river location at Lee View, says Tommy Barker

YEARS of professional architectural expertise went into making No 2, Woodview a simple viewing pleasure. It’s a Leeside home that works.

On what was his first rally in over eight months, Wexford’s James Stafford, in his rear wheel drive Darrian T90 GTR, took a well-earned victory in the Kilkenny-based Raven’s Rock Rally.

Reduced price and some terrific views for quality city pied a terre, writes Tommy Barker

THERE hasn’t been as varied exploration of the River Lee since St Finbarr came down from Gougane Barra in the seventh century and founded the city of Cork.

A RECENT journey from Galway to Cork was little more than a lottery as motorists had to dodge deep potholes, and oncoming motorists trying to do the same without either breaking an axle, bursting a tyre, or crashing.

BACK when it was built, in the mid-2000s, Ardfionn represented exactly what the market (if not the economy) thinking was – spend away, the only way is up.

THE prestigious Limerick Lady title was won last weekend by John McLoughlin, Falduff, Louisburgh, Co Mayo, with his home-bred qualifier at Westport Show, by Grosvenor Lad out of Falduff Lady.

WE must be grateful for small mercies — but not too grateful to those who released more than 500 tonnes of water per second close to midnight last Thursday when most people were in bed and business owners, already trying to cope with a battered economy, had left their premises unaware that the ESB, in its wisdom, had decided to lower the water level in the Inniscarra dam as the witching-hour of midnight approached.

Thousands of people around the country are facing rising floodwaters this morning.

THESE houses overlooking the Lee at Wellington Bridge, Cork always do well, not matter what the market.

THE ecstasy and the agony.

Tommy Barker on a house that’s head and shoulders above the rest.

HOUSE-HUNTERS looking for a modern house, with the best of everything in it, will be pretty pleased with the specification of ArdFionn — this hillside house is truly top-drawer.

A MASSIVE search was expected to resume in the River Lee near Ballincollig, Co Cork, this morning for a woman who has been missing since Thursday.

AS GARDAÍ appealed for witnesses to two car crashes, one of which left a nine-month-old baby girl with serious injuries, three of the seven people killed in a horrific weekend of smashes were named yesterday.

Gardaí in Wexford are appealing for witnesses to a crash yesterday afternoon in which a baby girl was seriously injured.

ROSY red and bright white, the cottages that proclaim ‘up Cork’ all year round are a feature of Sunday’s Well Avenue.

DONE up from top to bottom in the last few years, Mount Rivers is a ready made move-in job for anybody in the house-hunting game.

SUNDAY’S Well’s slightly down at heel ‘lady in red’ is ready for wooing.

SWEDISH safety experts are coming to Dublin this week to help tackle unprecedented carnage on Irish roads.

A local man in his 20s has died after crashing his car into a ditch in Co Wexford this morning.

THERE’S been a hot market response to the bungalow called Coole, a mid-1900s three-bed home on a delicious one-third of an acre site, above the Lee Road in Cork.

THEY don't build houses like they used to. The thought comes constantly to mind wondering around a place as fine as Memling.

Several Garda units spent over three hours chasing a two-man gang across Cork today following a spate of burglaries and a road accident.

Gardai in Cork have arrested two men following an attempted robbery and high-speed car chase this morning.

DON’T call it old fashioned, call it Olde Worlde: that’s the polite way of describing the charms of the Old(e) Coach House, above the River Lee and Lee Road in Cork.

RIGHT at the end of a small boreen off the Lee Road and very close to Wellington Bridge, Rose Hill House has all the relics of old decency.

I’VE been a resident of the Lee Road near Wellington Bridge in Cork, for 30 years.

THE closure of the rail line at Cahir in County Tipperary, due to last week's derailment of a freight train, has seriously disrupted beet deliveries to the Irish Sugar factories in Mallow, and Carlow.

THE proposed closure of two stretches of rail link across Co Tipperary is a disastrous start to the search for an antidote to the over dominance of Dublin.

DESPITE evidence of an economic slowdown and a subsequent cooling in the property market, the odd surprise is still being thrown up.

CIÉ has deferred a decision to close down loss-making freight services and railway lines following a last-minute intervention by the Government.

IRISH Rail is to pull out of its loss-making freight services which employ 250 people but insists no jobs will be put at risk.