Some €2.6m should not have been paid to two directors of a company sub-contracted to carry out part of a €30m clean-up of the former Irish Steel site in Haulbowline, Cork, it has been claimed in the High Court.

Tommy Barker finds a highly specified and modern four-bedroomed family home on the outskirts of Cork. 

This furnished Wilton three-bedroom duplex, at close to 1,400 sq ft, is much more spacious than most duplexes, reckons Trish Dromey.

At next month’s July 6 big Sherry FitzGerald multi-lot auction, first-time buyers are expected to take on investors in the bidding for this two-bed Wilton apartment with an AMV of €165,000.

Tucked away towards the back of Westbury, off Sarsfield Road in Cork’s Wilton is St Catherine, or No 1 Westbury Crescent.

IF YOU buy the quite-grandly titled Wilton House in Cork’s Bishopstown/Wilton suburbs, you’ll be spending more on doing it up.

A super-long site, a settled suburban setting with dome views of Dennehy’s Cross Church at its back, and drains replaced and foundations underpinned — there’s going to be good viewing traffic at Glenlara, or 9 Wilton Gardens.

Might the “water of life”, a new whiskey and spirits distillery and tourism attraction, be a new presence in the West Cork town of Clonakilty’s Waterfront development?

This one-bedroomed unit has generous living accommodation and is easy on the eye, fitted out with oak-flooring and tasty touches.

While historians dissect the major events in the life of the nation, newspapers provide a living history — tracking and recording not just the headline news or the grand themes but also the everyday lives of ordinary people.

There’s more than what first greets the eye for buyers, or viewers, at 154 Eagle Valley, in Cork’s suburban Wilton.

They came from all corners of Ireland yesterday to bid a fond farewell to a giant of a man and of Irish sport – the ‘king of the road’ Mick Barry.

A retail unit acquired in 1999 as the second ever Aldi Irish store is up for sale by tender as an investment: it’s the anchor tenant in the Westside Retail Park, Ballincollig in Cork, on a lease set to run until 2024.

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A man who bit off part of his brother’s ear in a fight spat the piece of skin into the face of a member of An Garda Síochána.

A court claimant suing for injuries from a workplace accident and a car crash who was videoed moving freely after presenting as “a cripple” to a doctor, withdrew his case on the fifth day of the action at the High Court.

Four brothers who lost their mother to Alzheimer’s have helped their father organise a fundraising cycle in her memory to help other families caring for a loved one with dementia.

OLD YOUGHAL ROAD, CORK €299,000

Dublin City Council has bought a Georgian garden square once owned by a businessman who attempted to use the two-acre leafy landmark as a car park.

A garden has its cycles, say Charlie Wilkins and preparing for the inevitable makes sense.

A TALENTED young musician with cerebral palsy who communicates using a hi-tech device is set to rock the Áras with a soulful saxophone solo.

A MIDDLE-AGED man confessed yesterday to carrying out an arson attack on the southern headquarters of the Health Service Executive in June 2007. The fire is estimated to have cost the HSE €2 million.

CHILDHOOD is being stunted by parents who push their children too hard to excel at school and other prestige activities, according to a new report.

LITTLE Molly Hogan does not know it yet but she has already made a little bit of history by being named the first baby of 2006.

SANTA made a list, checked it twice and was asked to check it again, just to be sure, while in Cork yesterday.

MILLIONS more in laundered IRA cash will be uncovered in an investigation that could last at least six months, garda sources said last night.

Designer label store BT2, an offshoot of the popular Brown Thomas, will be drawing fashion-conscious shoppers to Wilton, Cork.