Big size, retro looks a winner

Tommy Barker says this Skibbereen scheme ticks the right boxes.

HE’S young, but builder Darren Hourihane has already made his name among the ranks of west Cork builders... itself a fairly well-regarded bunch of home providers.

The man behind DH Contracts (he built the very successful Pairc na Fana scheme in Union Hall for a development consortium) is completing five detached houses at the Baltimore Road in Skibbereen which won’t do his rapidly-grown reputation any harm.