The Sunday Times

It's a long way from the German city of Dresden, hard against the Czech and Polish borders, to Donegal, on the continent's Atlantic coast. Martin Henchion, a 33-year-old architect from Cork, has been building near both frontiers of the EU. The quality of the results is remarkably consistent. One of Ireland's better-judged, if lesser-known, millennium projects is Henchion's clock tower in Stranorlar, Co Donegal. His first Irish construction provides a new setting for the clock and bell from the town's long-vanished railway station.