Back to the future with a little piece of old amid all the exciting new

BUILT in 1929, the year of the Wall Street Crash, there’s no sign of economic downturn at Tig Padraig, a detached family home in a key location on Cork’s main Douglas Road.

The home is just 150 metres from the South Ring Road off-ramp as it enters East Village — those who know the area will see it as a truly prime place to live and disport.

Developers and shopping centre owners the Love family are formulating vastly ambitious plans for Douglas: they’re aiming to link their two shopping centres and they’ve already acquired much of the land and properties between them; the idea revolves around proposed new relief roads to ease congestion in the area and, if they can be sorted, there’ll soon be a 21st century plan for Douglas which will mean residents hardly have to leave it — for anything.