Catherine Shanahan

Cork

Journalist at Irish Examiner

Big job in the Irish Examiner. Views expressed here are my own.

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Articles

€900k period home with O'Malley political clan links is for sale in Limerick

5 days ago | irishexaminer.com | Catherine Shanahan

pt €900,000 Size 246 sq m (2648 sq ft) Bedrooms 6 Bathrooms 3 BER Exempt ROSENEATH House could give period drama Downton Abbey a run for its money, given the ‘Who’s Who’ of Limerick nobility that lived there. Over its c 200-year history, the Limerick Georgian property has housed men of the cloth, doctors, politicians, military officers — even an Aga Khan trophy winner.
Cute €265k one-bed cottage in Douglas for the price of an apartment

1 week ago | irishexaminer.com | Catherine Shanahan

€265,000 Size 50 sq m (538 sq ft) Bedrooms 1 Bathrooms 2 BER B3 COMING soon, from a starting price of €265,000, are spanking new one-bedroom apartments at The View, Bayly, on Carr’s Hill in Castletreasure, not far from Douglas village, a suburb of Cork city. A good deal older, and closer to Douglas village, is this one-bedroom cottage, with the same starting price of €265,000.
Working Life: 'We’re very concerned about the attraction of vapes to young people'

1 week ago | irishexaminer.com | Catherine Shanahan

“I was born in London after my parents left beautiful West Cork in the 1950s to find work. I moved back to Ireland 30 years ago with my family for a better quality of life. “My choice of career was prompted by a chance assignment as a clerical assistant to the environmental health service of Camden Council.
Easy to lead a horse to water at €1m East Ferry home with floodlit arena

1 week ago | irishexaminer.com | Catherine Shanahan

€1m Size 232 sq m (2500 sq ft) Bedrooms 4 Bathrooms 3 BER B3 THE sons of a couple who bought a home with the scope to develop an outdoor equestrian arena have been going gangbusters at showjumping ever since: One lives in the US, where he continues to show jump, along with advising clients on the best horses to buy; the second stayed closer to home, in East Ferry, where he remains professionally involved in showjumping and producing horses to compete.
€2.75m Limerick land sale could deliver up to 70 homes in Corbally

1 week ago | irishexaminer.com | Catherine Shanahan

DEVELOPMENT land with the potential to deliver almost 70 homes in a popular Limerick City suburb is on the market, with offers in excess of €2.75m sought. The greenfield site, on the Mill Rd in Corbally, is just over eight hectares (20.3 acres), of which 1.9ha (4.7ac) is zoned “new residential”. The prescribed residential density, under the current Limerick Development Plan (2022-2028), is for 35+ homes per hectare. The remaining land just over 6ha (15ac) — is zoned for public open space.
Odds-on buyers favourite at €745k home in the The Paddocks

2 weeks ago | irishexaminer.com | Catherine Shanahan

€745,000 Size 160 sq m (1,722 sq ft) Bedrooms 3/4 Bathrooms 3 BER C1 Activity around No 9 Tirol Close has been pacey. Within five days of its market arrival last week, the four-bed home had cantered past the €745,000 guide price. Buyers have always been fast out of the traps when it comes to homes in The Paddocks, at the Douglas end of Maryborough Hill.
Working Life: Radiation oncology is like virtual surgery, where you deliver targeted treatment

2 weeks ago | irishexaminer.com | Catherine Shanahan

“I’m originally from Newcastle, Co Down. I completed my training in hospitals in Belfast and Amsterdam, and took up a consultant post in Belfast. I was then appointed as director of radiation oncology at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne, Australia’s largest cancer centre. All my family — my wife Suzie, a GP, and children Alice, Patrick and James — moved there in 2018. “We loved Peter Mac and Australia, but missed friends and family in Ireland and came back in 2021. I love being home.
Former North Cork TB sanitorium for sale for €300k

2 weeks ago | irishexaminer.com | Catherine Shanahan

A sprawling Cork former hospital complex that failed to sell when it first came to market for €350,000 five years ago has had the guide price slashed by €50,000 following a change of agency. Heatherside Hospital, set on more than 20 acres in the Ballyhoura Hills, near Buttevant, was built in 1909 as a sanitorium for tuberculosis (TB) patients at a time when death rates from the disease were spiking in Ireland.
Lots of wow factor at expertly renovated €355k Rose Cottage in East Cork

3 weeks ago | irishexaminer.com | Catherine Shanahan

€355,000 Size 88 sq m (947 sq ft) Bedrooms 3 Bathrooms 1 BER C1 THE evocative name Rose Cottage suggests an idyllic way of life, which is what’s served up at this Clonpriest East home, near Ballymacoda. It took a lot of grafting by its UK owner, Chris Chesterman, and his Ballymacoda cousin, builder Pat Shanahan, to get it where it is today, but the results are edifying. “Just about habitable,” is how Chris describes what it looked like when he bought it in 2017.
Working Life: I wouldn’t advise people to turn away from stress. I’d say, ‘Turn to meaning’

3 weeks ago | irishexaminer.com | Catherine Shanahan

“As a psychologist, I look at the emotional impact of living with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Managing uncertainty is one of the real challenges for people with IBD. Inflammation can strike anywhere along the digestive tract and you can suddenly have a flare-up. “Most healthy people can get on with their lives and believe in the myth that we are in control of our bodies. Those with IBD have to manage it, but they can’t control it and that’s the sting in the tail.