Here are eight projects that could rejuvenate Cork City.

A bar with name that sums up its catchment is up for sale: it’s the Thirsty Scholar, on Western Road/Lancaster Quay, near UCC, the Mercy Hospital and The River Lee Hotel which changed hands last year for €25m.

Cork City Council is poised to compulsorily acquire the former Beamish and Crawford brewery site in Cork using powers under the Derelict Sites Act.

BREWING giant Heineken crushed heritage campaigners’ hopes yesterday of developing a heritage centre on the site of Ireland’s oldest brewery.

IT is regrettable that some recently announced business decisions taken in the boardrooms of Amsterdam, Copenhagen and Edinburgh will result in the closure of the Beamish and Crawford brewery in Cork city centre.