Your local in your own back garden

THE market throws up the occasional house where the personality shines through so much, it would make you laugh — from a sense of fun.

And none more so than this house, Academy Lodge, at Foxes Bridge, Vicarstown, Co Cork, where a rear shed has been turned into, well, a shebeen.

Not that they’re selling drink, mind you, it’s just a mock-up of a local that’s so perfect and so wish-fulfilling that you have to take your hat off to the owner.