IT’s all about the timing — and the agents offering a shopping centre developed almost a decade ago and largely still unlet are hoping the time is right for a swoop, offering a 9% return, on a €1.9m sale, of a sizeable north Cork town centre that cost a reported €20m to deliver.

PLANS to develop a rail link between Shannon, Ennis and Limerick is back on track after a consortium yesterday said it was willing to back the project.