Welcome home to Churchtown

THE cameras are coming: there’s a showhouse showdown in the immediate offing at the Earls Court scheme of new homes, in north Cork’s Churchtown.

Two interiors designers are doing battle for the hearts, minds, and wallets of aspiring buyers and viewers, thanks to the new series of the RTÉ programme, Showhouse. Later this month, they visit the Carraig Beag Developments’s scheme of 73 houses, which will also include a medical centre and creche.

The days of just building houses ad nauseum, with no facilities, are slowly grinding to a halt too.