It’s not very often that you get a home of this size and quality near Douglas, and mere minutes from Cork city centre. Tommy Barker admires the perfectly up-to-date Lisheen, a fine large home sitting pretty on over 0.6 of an acre in leafy Woodview

Already gone over its price guide and under swift offer at €715,000 is Sunview, one of the most surprising house property packages to come to the open market in Cork for a while.

A six-month jail term was imposed yesterday on a man who flew into a rage and threw a flowerpot through a neighbour’s window.

When you’ve locked horns and beaten women’s rugby giants New Zealand and World Cup champions England in the recent past, taking on highly-ranked Canada isn’t quite the frightening prospect it could be.

A book of evidence was served yesterday on a priest accused of indecently assaulting a boy at a school in Co Cork about 35 years ago.

This 10-year old property ‘compound’ has its very own hard surface, fully fenced tennis court amid other garden delights.

THE owners of this aptly-named one-off home called Woodview, or 25A, in the long matured Rochestown Rise development in Cork, barely needed the Grand Stand view they had of its construction, as they lived next door and were building anew last year in their former back garden.

PRICES are back on the march in Cork’s suburban and high-end Hettyfield: but, they are still are a long way short of boom-time levels of €1m and even €2m asking prices and sales.

A 19-year-old man who was arrested in connection with an assault in Monaghan has been released from custody.

Gardai are investigating after an elderly woman sustained serious injuries when her home was burgled by two intruders in the early hours of yesterday morning.

Update at 8.15pm: Gardai investigating an assault in Monaghan have arrested a 19-year-old male this evening in the Monaghan area. He is currently being detained at Monaghan Garda Station.

A man who harassed a woman for nine months had been hearing voices warning him he would be menaced by evil spirits if he disobeyed them, a court has heard.

Tommy Barker says when it comes to quality, Kendal ticks all the boxes for master-craftsmanship.

APPROPRIATELY, there’s a view still to be had down from the wooded grounds of 2, Carrs Hill, to the exquisite spire and grounds of St Luke’s Church in Cork’s Douglas — the in-spired view is relevant, because this house was for most of its life the rectory that housed the various clergy and their families.

A Cork suburban house sold for €2.4m — more than €500,000 over its asking price — is being hailed as evidence of recovery and emerging confidence in the upper end of the house market outside of Dublin.

A normal middle-class teenager’s life collapsed around him when a priest sexually assaulted him in the sick bay of a boarding school in 1979 and returned moments afterwards with a Disprin and a glass of water.

A jury of 10 men and two women reached a unanimous guilty verdict against a 70-year-old priest for a sex assault on a schoolboy in the sick bay of a boarding school in 1979.

The priest on trial for a sex assault on a teenage boy in the sick bay of a boarding school in 1979 told the jury he had admitted sexually assaulting 10 other boys, but that he did not touch the complainant.

A boarding school student in 1979 described in court yesterday how he was indecently assaulted in the sick bay by a priest who was also dean of discipline.

Location: Douglas, Cork €2.75million

Tommy Barker uncovers venerable Douglas village hideaway called Curraghbeg, on a remarkable-sized acre and a half in Douglas.

The case against a priest accused of indecently assaulting a student in a school toilet on an unknown date in the mid-1980s has been dismissed after a trial at Cork District Court.

The case against a priest accused of indecently assaulting a student in a school toilet on an unknown date in the mid-1980s was put back for more evidence on the complaint to be supplied to the defence.

Gardaí arrested an 80-year-old man yesterday and charged him with indecently assaulting 14 children while serving as a Missionaries of Sacred Heart priest and he declared: “I am totally innocent of those charges.”

Three former teachers at a Cork boarding school have appeared in court charged with indecently assaulting a number of pupils at the school over a 20-year period.

Two Vietnamese nationals with addresses in Cork appeared before a special sitting of Wexford District Court yesterday on charges of importation of drugs through Rosslare Port.

The early 1990s were a busy time for the family just now setting sail from 14 The Paddocks. They were family-building and home-buying - and there was a little matter of competing in the Barcelona Olympics in 1992 to contend with as well.

A man described as a “Walter Mitty” has launched an appeal against his jail sentence for concocting allegations that he was sexually assaulted by X Factor judge Louis Walsh.

DOZENS of parking spaces will be removed to make way for the first phase of a new €7 million network of cycle lanes linking Cork city to the suburbs.

WEDNESDAY, November 2, 2011 was a bleak day for Ireland, the crystallisation of the punitive price for this tiny nation’s stumbling from colony to theocracy to plutocracy.

A MORNING school run turned to terror and gunfire when a drug-crazed man hijacked a car with three children.

Gardaí in Wicklow are investigating the serious assault of a 31-year old man which occurred in Ashford last night.

MEMBERS of a specialist garda unit opened fire on a crazed drug addict in Limerick yesterday after he stole a car with a two-year-old child strapped into a baby seat.

Property editor Tommy Barker rounds up some of Munster’s, and the country’s biggest house movers in 2010.

THREE weekend fatalities have brought the number of people killed on Irish roads to 170 this year and to 15 this month.

RECKONED by their selling agent to be the best new homes built in Leap in west Cork, the scheme Woodview Heights above the pretty village goes to the market this month.

A FINE, century-old farmhouse once part of a large 180-acre productive holding has come up for sale on 1.4 acres, complete with grove of trees and a grass tennis court.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has dismissed an appeal by a consultant surgeon and his wife against their convictions for defrauding almost €750,000 from insurance companies through a false breast cancer claim.

I WISH to support Margaret Browne’s request (Letters, June 29) for an apology from both you and Terry Prone for her column headlined ‘When it comes to the task of dying, ordinary people get the better deal’ (June 29).

GARDAÍ in Cahir are appealing for information on a road crash that claimed the life of a 20-year-old local man late on Wednesday night.

IN his letter (May 15), Maurice Fitzgerald repeats common misinformation about agricultural subsidies.