Avenue to grand project

LOCAL gossip along the Blackrock Road in Cork would have you believe that a couple of new and renovated houses, currently in their finishing stages, are costing their owners €5 million or even €6m to complete.

And the nodding heads put it all down to the quality of address (well, they would, wouldn’t they, when they also live along the Blackrock Road?).

Whatever about the exact spending budgets of jobs in hand, it is clear that the Blackrock Road is capable of encouraging the upwardly mobile to part with millions of euro for the right home product.