Gem views at harbour home

THERE are views and then there are the views from Diamond Hill in Monkstown.

Perched high on a bluff above the Cork harbour village, the eye can scan as far as Whitegate to the east, Crosshaven in the distance and Ringaskiddy and the various pharma industries to the west.

Even the industrial derricks of Verolme look good from this vantage point — the beauty of the harbour outshines the interventions of man, and Mammon.