DIY SOS team needs tradespeople for special Cork housing project 

Some of the homes at Kingston College in Mitchelstown, which are set to get the DIY SOS treatment in July. Picture: Donagh Glavin

The team behind Ireland’s DIY SOS has issued an urgent appeal for an army of tradespeople to roll up their sleeves and get stuck into a very special building project in Cork to house Ukrainians who have fled the war.

Big Build Ireland, presented by Baz Ashmawy, has set its sights on transforming six historic houses on the grounds of Kingston College in Mitchelstown in north Cork but they will need a lot of help for what they've called a “mammoth endeavour”.