Ex-mayor’s family home for sale

THE former family home of one-time Cork Lord Mayor Gus (Augustine) Healy, is up for sale.

A dentist by profession, and more latterly a politician, Gus Healy’s name is still in daily recall as the municipal Douglas Swimming Pool was named in his honour in the 1970s: he had been president of the swimming body IASA in the 1940s, and maintained a love of the sport.

His family home had been Kilmore Cottage, a neat post-war bungalow on the Church Road in Blackrock, Cork and is now about to leave Healy family ownership for the first time.