Not all of the new house developments built in the boom were of the same-same design and quality.

WITH the daffodils just popping up now among the anemones and snowdrops in its front drive, and under old chestnut trees, Woodville House is a River Blackwater treasure, and an early-season Munster market arrival.

So how did a mild-mannered English teacher from a tiny village in New Zealand become one of the most respected and innovative rugby coaches in Europe and now the new supremo of the Ireland rugby team?

GLANMIRE, Cork €475,000

THE LOUGH, CORK €295,000

Substantial Georgian home has a price cut, down to €850,000, Tommy Barker reports.

A powerful winter storm roared across America’s upper Midwest with high winds and mounds of snow closing roads in several states and grounding more than 1,400 flights in Chicago.

SIGNIFICANT further price reductions have been put into place in the Woodville scheme in Cork’s Glanmire.

IT was one of the first contemporary estates to be built in Cork city and these Woodville, Glanmire houses are now in the last phase since their launch in 2004.

ON the basis that if you are paying over €1.25 million for a new house you might be a bit picky, fussy or just know what finishes you do and don’t want, the two whoppers at Cork’s Woodville deliberately are being left unfinished.

Proposals for more than 1,000 new affordable homes to be built across south Dublin were unveiled today.

A teenager was killed when she fell from a quad bike bought just a day earlier with her brothers’ confirmation and communion money, an inquest heard today.

GOOD value at the guide price of €400,000 (if such a thing could be said in this market), No 11, Woodville in Rochestown, offers substantial accommodation with a handy address.

RELATIVELY ordinary family homes in the busy Rochestown/Douglas suburbs now can sell for €1 to €2 million, so one of the few remaining period homes in this wealthy hinterland should carry a sizeable premium.

FRESH new house designs, but a return to an architectural feature from the past, the stair return, distinguish the new homes launched this weekend in The Beeches, Woodville, a mile from the Jack Lynch Tunnel in Cork.

JUST two weeks after O’Flynn Construction was refused planning permission for a development in Glanmire, Co Cork, another builder has had plans turned down in the same area.

Hurricane Rita ploughed into the Gulf of Mexico coast early today, lashing Texas and Louisiana with driving rain, flooding low-lying regions, knocking power out to nearly a million customers and sparking fires across the region.

SOMETHING a bit different, say the selling agents for Woodville - and they’ll soon have callers aplenty to vouch for it.

DEVOTEES of contemporary house design usually have to build their own one-off homes. Now, though, a niche woodland scheme near Cork city offers modern ready-mades.

STRONG investor interest is still being evidenced in Cork, says Global’s Paul Fleming and so far, there has been no let up in the market.

A fireman is recovering in hospital after he was attacked in west Belfast.