Manhattan transferred

MANHATTAN meets Munster - as well as Munster rugby star Peter Stringer - as penthouse living arrives from the Hudson River's shores to the Lee estuary.

The rugby player was one of the recent discrete buyers of one of the best apartments at Harty's Quay in Cork's Rochestown suburb - the ease of locking up his Cork base to play abroad was a big purchase point.

This plush place in the same development, probably the largest penthouse apartment to hit the market in the province, has just under 2,000 sq ft of indoor and outdoor living space, bigger than most family homes.