House of the week: Get your roubles ready for home from Russia, with love

Sharing the same name as a popular wine brand, Midleton’s new homes scheme called Blossomhill could be said to have come from Russia, with love.

Behind the East Cork Blossomhill development which will run to over 100 new-builds, in three phases, is a company called Castle Rock Homes: its CEO is Tim Murray, an engineer who’s come back to Ireland after the best part of 20 years working in Russia, with the likes of giant Irish company Mercury Engineering, and Dornan Engineering where he was a shareholder, companies turning over as much as a €100 million a year in contracts.