Your chance to turn ‘Briar’ into a Holme from home

RENEWAL comes in stages, and it also comes in bursts – take Bernadette Way as a microcosm example.

This short estate of semi-detached homes between Cork’s Boreenmanna Road and the Ballinlough Road has been particularly busy this year, what with the builders in and all.

Most recently, the City Council re-surfaced the road, so there’s a smooth tarred approach now, but in the past 12 months or so, a clutch of neighbouring houses have made very visible upgrades too (see example pic.)