A cottage of note

THE chance to get hip to the square has cropped up on Cork city’s North Mall — the Abbey Square home of Frank and Walters guitarist Niall Linehan is up for grabs.

The Indie rock/pop musician is part of the occasional gigging and recording threesome The Frank and Walters, which with fellow members Paul Linehan and Ashley Keating flowered in the early and mid-1990s along with local contemporaries the Sultans of Ping.

For a glorious period they dominated Top of the Pops: the Franks' massive hit, a perfect pop jingle called After All sold up to 500,000 copies, and the band's albums sell up to 20,000 copies a throw around Europe.