WHAT’s the collective noun for multiple medics? A delivery of doctors, or an outbreak of obstetricians? A coven of consultants? Can any location get closer to the action than bustling College Road itself?

Tommy Barker admires a reasonably-priced home in the scheme just across the Douglas River from Rochestown.

The developers behind the €50m regeneration of the landmark Capitol cinema site in Cork City have abandoned plans for a food hall in favour of more retail and office space.

The decision by global fire and security protection giant Tyco to move its headquarters to Ireland’s “smartest” building has been hailed as a major vote of confidence in the country.

Demolition work on the former Capitol cinema site in the heart of Cork City has begun, heralding the start of a €50m project which is set to rejuvenate the city centre.

Two appeals to An Bord Pleanála will delay the start of the €50m regeneration of the derelict former Capitol cinema site in Cork City by at least four months.

Cork City Council is to decide by the end of this week whether or not to permit office use at a quayside, outdoors shop to allow an educational authority to expand its offices.

Tommy Barker reports on quay deals for future dock developments.

GOOD story for Cork, good story for the country, and more cranes on the skyline to come.

Plans for a nine-storey office block in the heart of Cork City with the potential to deliver up to 2,000 jobs have been withdrawn — even though the local authority gave it the green light.

Confirmation of last week’s Commercial Property exclusive story about 500 jobs coming to Cork in a major FDI investment came this Monday with Tyco publicly named as the new arrival, or returnee.

ONE of the country’s leading private hospitals, the Mater Private, is to open in Cork by the end of the year as part of a €75 million investment.

MATER Private Healthcare has confirmed its interest in the takeover of a €90 million Cork hospital that closed just five months after it opened.

IT has a west-facing balcony and views over the more unspoilt reaches of Cork’s inner harbour.

THE National Roads Authority (NRA) has withdrawn its objection to a €200 million office project in Cork which has the potential to create 1,500 jobs.

A NEW development of townhouses in Macroom offers starter homes at €235,000 upwards.

Tommy Barker says Jacob Island’s homes are a class apart.

Graham Lee was taken to hospital with an elbow injury following a crashing fall at Punchestown this afternoon.

THE progressive Celestial Wave and Nina Carberry proved an irresistible combination in the Dawn Omega Milk EBF Mares Novice Hurdle at Limerick yesterday.

Brave Inca made a winning reappearance in an eventful renewal of the Grade Two Maplewood Developments Morgiana Hurdle at Punchestown.

Dervla Toal will play Catriona O’Farrell in the final of the Pat O’Brien Developments Queen of the Roads at Ballincurrig on Sunday, following an impressive win over Gretta Cormican and Rena Ahlrichs yesterday.