Plans to build a multi-million euro events and conference centre in Cork is in turmoil after one of two developers — O’Callaghan Properties — who were in the running pulled out at the final tender stage.

The winner of the race between two rival developers for a potential €16m kickstart fund to help build a multi-million euro events centre in Cork City will be announced next month.

A key landowner in Cork’s sprawling south docklands has backed O’Callaghan Properties’ €50m Albert Quay events centre project.

The process to select the preferred developer of Cork’s first multi-million conference centre took a step forward last night.

Double Major champion Rory McIlroy toasted Fota Island Resort’s success in landing the 2014 Irish Open as the Cork parkland course celebrated its return to the world golf stage for the first time in 12 years.

Cork’s city manager has rejected criticism of the process being used to select the preferred developer of the city’s first multi-million euro events centre.

This year's Irish Open will be staged at the Fota Island Resort in Cork, it was confirmed today.

BAM Contractors — the country’s largest public works construction firm — has reported a 47.5% rise in annual profits.

Cork City Council is to re-examine the possibility of investing public money in an events centre.

About 100 construction and engineering jobs are being created on the controversial Corrib gas project.

ONE of the largest construction groups in the country, BAM Contractors returned to profit last year despite writing down its Irish property portfolio by €37.7 million.

A CONSERVATION group plans to appeal a decision to grant conditional planning permission to transform a former brewery site in Cork city into a multi-million euro events centre.

The Crawford graduate exhibition will show the fruits of the college’s use of the old Fás building, says Carl Dixon

A €150-million Brewery Quarter tourism and cultural investment is planned for the heart of Cork city, on the four-acre site vacated in 2009 by the historic firm Beamish and Crawford.

ONE of the country’s largest construction firms BAM Contractors fell into the red last year, recording pre-tax losses of almost €10m. This compares to a profit of €22.5m in the previous year.

THE construction of just 29 houses in Cork city last year represented a 98% drop from the 1,627 that commenced in 2006.