THE top floor of City Quarter, the Cork City quayside office block facing the ambitious, new One Albert Quay €45m office site, has finally been leased.

AN EVENTS centre, larger than the main hall of Dublin’s RDS, is to be built in Cork city within months.

A LOT of things got washed downstream in Cork’s 2009 flooding – but gone out even earlier on the tide were the Brave New World hopes of a major docklands redevelopment. Gone are much of the hopes of the likes of key drivers like Howard Holdings – which is now a pale shadow of what it was.