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IF YOU’RE LOOKING for a property that’s unlike any other, this four-bed home with a shopfront exterior could be the one for you.
Located in Fiddown village, Co Kilkenny, the eye-catching cottage is on the market for €180,000 through Brophy Cusack.
An old-school sign to one side of the house reads ‘Grocery and Provisions’, but inside it’s a charming and character filled home.
Although it has been fully renovated, the interior has been thoughtfully decorated to keep with the country-style theme, with features including original sash windows, timber wall panelling and tiled floors.
The kitchen and dining room is particularly appealing, with duck egg blue cabinets and exposed shelving, terracotta tiled floors and room for a dining table to seat six.
There are two living areas in the property, with an open fireplace in one and a solid fuel-burning stove in the other. The stove is particularly impressive thanks to its inset design and exposed stone surround, making for the perfect spot to curl up in front of on cold winter nights.
Maximising every square foot of space, a study/working area has been set up beside the staircase. This is right beside the stove, undoubtedly making long days working from home a little easier. A bathroom/utility room completes the ground floor accommodation.
Moving to the first floor, there are four double bedrooms and one bathroom here. Each bedroom features vaulted ceilings and carpet flooring, while one benefits from a beautiful feature arch window.
Externally, there are two storage sheds and a neat courtyard for dining al fresco. The grounds will provide an ideal project for a keen gardener or DIYer to work on, with the potential to truly transform the space.
The house is centrally located in Fiddown village, with the banks of the River Suir just a short stroll away. Piltown village can be reached in less than a five-minute drive, with a primary school and GAA club. Further afield, Carrick-on-Suir town is a 10-minute drive away.
With a tranquil countryside location, one-of-a-kind exterior and charming interior, this four-bed cottage offers the perfect escape without a mammoth price tag.
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Bad batch of illegal narcotics is being made out like a bad batch of pasteurised milk or baby food. These are drugs that have been mixed with anything and everything .
Step up the war against drugs, don’t appease them.
@Edward Vanderlee:
How is the war going ?
50+ years now.
@Edward Vanderlee: The war on drugs has been a complete and abject failure and the world has thankfully started to move on to different approaches. It’s not about rewarding or appeasing users and sellers, it’s about reducing harms to society as a whole. You may not particularly like or approve of the introduction of supervised injection centres, but I for one applaud them as a lesser evil than shooting up in alleyways and laneways in broad daylight. Get with the times, boomer.
@Kevin Collins: it’s also about Not punishing people who end up mostly through no fault of there own in addiction and or with mental health problems. We wouldn’t jail someone who had cancer but the jails are full of addicts. #childhoodtrauma
@T Paul Kelly: its not going well but it’s 100% the right thing to do.
I live a short walk from Thomas Street in Dublin. The amount of addicts in that area is terrible, publicly injecting.
No society should normalise that.
Support the addicts and jail the dealers.
@Edward Vanderlee: It’s not going well but it’s the right thing to do ? Think about that statement. The answer is counterintuitive but unfortunately we all have to wait for the less agile thinkers like yourself, to catch up with the rest of us. Then we can finally start changing policy, making a difference and saving lives.
@Declan Doherty: no need to resort to insults now Declan. I’m perfectly agile mentally.
I saw three people injecting eachother in the entrance of a hotel the other day on my way to work.
Those poor people. The poor gardai trying to police it too where the courts are a revolving door.
Nothing ageist about it… that’s not acceptable in any society.
I’m in the hostels and there was three deaths in my hostel alone while that batch was going around and I know of good few who died. Why has there been no reporting on that?
Would the author of this piece care to find out how many died during that bad batch?
Or are we too woke to print that kind of thing?
@Denis Rathsallagh Brady: how is that ‘woke’ in any way? Didn’t they have an article a week or two ago detailing a number of deaths to that point if i recall, do you not believe them or something?
@Setanta O’Toole: I obviously didnt read that article but it would be helpful if the figures were put into this article too.
Ive even given them the number for Merchants Quay Ireland.
You sure it was deaths due to this bad batch and not lives saved by Naloxone?
I mean, one knows the risks. Choices
Have to say well done to the department of health who see the value of harm reduction ( eg festival pill testing) – pity the Department of Justice seem to be trapped in the dark ages.
Here ill help you out.
Heres Merchants Quay phone number wont take you a minute to ring them.
(01) 524 0160
The police forces knows who are the dealers, yet no one is getting locked up
@Dominic Leleu: locking up those who do drive is counterproductive. We have overflowing prisons at the present time and you want to add more??? rehabilitation, awareness campaigns though workforces, schools, PLC colleges, 3rd level etc is the way to go.
@Dominic Leleu: forget the typo lol meant drugs not drive lol
@alan scott: those are mere bandages… As long as we have a drugs policy from the 1980s the only outcomes will be rich mob bosses and endless, needless death and crime.
Need to give it to lecturers and staff at all the third level colleges.
Hilarious that anyone thinks our rightwing government cares about saving lives.
80th worst healthcare system in the world.
75k homeless
Drugs policy from the 1980s, which is enriching gangs and killing the sick.
Suicide epidemic
Etc.
We – as a people – are far more likely to throw babies in a septic tank than help the poor and sick.
@Chris O’Brien: Multiple-choice question.
Are you:
a. deranged?
b. delirious?
c. profoundly delusional?
d. lying?
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