A 1,000-space multi-storey carpark, a “Mercy Quarter” plaza, and a hospital two-and-a-half times the size of the existing facility are among proposals contained in a confidential document outlining expansion plans for the Mercy University Hospital (MUH).

A councillor has called on Cork City Council to adopt a more “hardline approach” towards the developers of Cork’s stalled event centre.

With a price tag of €30m-plus, Cork City’s Clarion Hotel is the most valuable Irish hotel outside of Dublin to come to the open market since the economic downturn.

Planners have given the green light for the €50m regeneration of the landmark former Capitol cinema site in the heart of Cork City.

A leading developer has backed calls for a massive extension of Cork’s city boundary.

Here are eight projects that could rejuvenate Cork City.

€500m in developments will rejuvenate city but planning is key, writes Eoin English

Throughout the centuries, Cork has enjoyed a bustling level of commercial activity and trade, sitting on what is regarded as the principal port in the south-west of Ireland, writes Theo Cullinane CEO of BAM Ireland 

Last week’s collective confirmation of major development projects for Cork gave a welcome fillip to everyone in the city, writes Owen O’Callaghan MD, O’Callaghan Properties