When an (Alfa) Romeo met a Glanmire Giulietta: €815k Cork home to international couple is a bit of  classic in its own right

An edge-of-city Cork home designed to be open plan with a contemporary feel is impressive and airy: and, it even has a 'professional' hobbyist's garage with car lift, writes Tommy Barker

No 8 Cuil Cluthair, Sallybrook, Glanmire, in Cork city is set at a wooded hideaway.

“Write about the house, not the cars or the garage.” That was the plea from estate agent Jackie Cohalan, after a property visit to 8 Cuil Cluthair. To be fair, it is a whole lot more than a garage with a house attached ... even if the garage has a car lift, and appears as well equipped and clean as a hospital operating theatre, for saving the life of old cars.

No 8’s a one-off edge-of-city Cork home which was built with a passion by an international couple, and whose passion also spills over into renovating old, classic Italian Alfa Romeo cars, banishing rust like some car-scavenging coronavirus and, now too, running a website Alfa Beta Classics showing the road to Alfa salvation.