Gardaí are investigating the deaths of a man and a woman in Co Wexford.

As Kinsale’s market ascends with the onset of Spring, Tommy Barker views this tasteful and spacious offering.

Set at the back of the Woodlands development in Cork’s Frankfield suburb is this one-off bungalow, on a stand-alone quarter acre site, and it’s called Elm House.

Lochbo Benny collected his second Cup of the season at the Cork meeting at Blarney yesterday with an impressive eight lengths success over Camarillo Blonde, who was having her first outing of the year.

There is plenty of room to roam in this one-off home set high above Cork city, writes Tommy Barker.

Ten thousand homes were affected by major disruption to the water supply on the northside of Cork City yesterday which forced the closure of at least one school.

Sq m: 280 (3,000 sq ft)

Ready-made four-bed trading up Frankfield family home, Tommy Barker reports.

A mother has appealed for the safe return of her 14-year-old daughter who UK police believe has disappeared with a 35-year-old convicted fraudster.

Life as we know it first began in the oceans which cover much of the earth.

It’s been in business nearly 100 years, so it’s no surprise Cleo Murphy enjoyed old-school, Irish hospitality at the Glenview Hotel.

All these romantic undertones can do terrible things to a man.

WATER supplies will be switched off, at nighttime, to thousands of homes in parts of south Cork over the next 10 days as the county council completes essential works.

IRISH history did not begin in 1969.

Three young men broke into an innocent man’s house and accused him of being a paedophile after a girl made false allegations that someone had exposed themselves to her.

THE owners of 7 Woodlands Demesne, in Cork’s Montenotte suburbs, talk of having some new cocky pheasants, and of the earlier more careless ones that the fox got.

This Glanmire cottage sits on 2½ acres of lush and mature gardens, Rose Martin reports.

A Mayo man is to go on trial at the Central Criminal Court in Dublin today for the murder of a man in Kiltimagh last year.

FERGUS Finlay writes (July 13) about how when in government the Labour party made good progress in improving services for people with disability.

MYLES Duffy’s suggested use for the “floating NAMA” that is the replica Jeannie Johnston is a good one (Letters, June 7).

READING Terry Prone’s column (May 17) reminded me of an elderly relative who was staying with our family back in the early 1970s.

IF, as some of the more blue-sky pundits suggest, we are near the bottom of the property slump, then now is the time to pick off the stragglers washed up by the receding tide.

YOUR editorial (April 28) began well, but quickly deteriorated into the usual inaccurate and criminalising caricature of the protest by people against Shell in Co Mayo.

YOU’D never know it was there without directions and that’s part of the attraction of Woodlands, Coolflugh, Tower.

IN 1972, when I was 13-years-old, some other children revealed to me they were being routinely abused by a man whom nobody had previously realised was a paedophile.

IN his letter headlined ‘I feel blessed in the US – not Ireland’ (January 30), Dr Cormac Duffy describes a living nightmare – from the cacophony of religious radio stations, through visual assaults on passers-by from gawdy church signs to the bible and religious artefact-stuffed supermarkets.

LAST Friday, Deputy Paul Gogarty of the Green party was heard in the Dáil attempting to persuade Labour’s Deputy Emmet Stagg — and the country at large — of the sincerity of his conviction that inflicting savage cuts on those who cannot afford them might be wrong but it was necessary. Deputy Stagg evidently had some understandable difficulty with the contradiction in Deputy Gogarty’s assertion.

WHEN will your editorial writers give up attacking public sector workers and unions as if they were responsible for what has happened to the economy?

CONSIDERING the direct role that corruption and cronyism – and the incompetence that are their signature – have played in bringing economic ruin, it’s depressing that so few candidates seem to be making these issues a priority in the lead-up to the local and European elections.

I AM vehemently opposed to the notion of a national unity government.

YOUR editorial (March 3) about the forthcoming budget concludes with the assertion that the alternative to cutting wages, taxing the poorest and cutting public services is “unthinkable”.

IN his letter (January 23) Martin Stern accuses me of having incorrectly asserted that Hamas was not responsible for breaking the recent ceasefire that resulted in the bloody Israeli assault on Gaza.

I OBJECT strongly to Steven King’s column (January 7). The distortion of fact and history that it embodies is astounding.

THESE are busy times for hotelier Conor Fitzgerald, the last few weeks in the run-up to Christmas, office parties by the dozen to be arranged in the two Fitzgerald family hotels, one in his native Adare – the Woodlands – the other in Cork, the Vienna Woods Hotel in Glanmire.

A fifth Longford man has walked free after being acquitted by a jury of committing violent disorder arising out of an ambush by an armed group on a wedding party and the shooting of two passengers in a car.

A fourth Longford man has been declared not guilty of violent disorder at the trial arising out of an ambush by an armed group on a wedding party and the shooting of two passengers in a car.

A witness has identified three Longford men as having been part of a group of "40 lads" who ambushed his car and shot a family member as they drove to a wedding.

GOVERNMENT abandons democracy. Ireland remortgaged to proven gambling addicts.

AN ARMY bomb disposal unit carried out a controlled explosion on a device found at a hotel in Waterford city on Saturday, just two days after a suspect explosive device was dealt with at a house in the city.

I WISH to register my dismay at the opposition to the proposed Clonakilty market by members of the town council. The market is welcomed by the vast majority of Clonakilty residents and traders alike.

Defending champion Darren Crowe will face Limerick's Michael Kemmy in Sunday's second round of the South of Ireland championship at Lahinch.

I DEFY anyone who is not familiar with the motorways/roads out of Dublin to Cork to navigate them without getting lost.

AN expanse of harbour views come with the Glounthaune house, Woodlands, in Upper Annmount, and at 3,300sq ft, the house itself is no slouch either.

A RECENT editorial (June 6) might leave some people scratching their heads and wondering where you can have been during the last two US presidential elections.