University College Cork acquired a private business college without picking up the tab for its pension scheme, which previously had a deficit of more than €10m.

University College Cork has said it is satisfied it paid market value when it bought a former bank from a local authority for €800,000 more than its purchase price two years earlier.

University College Cork president Patrick O’Shea used the inaugural Cork University Business School conference to announce plans to build a business school in Cork City centre that will be one of the biggest in the country.

The location of two, 19th century stone warehouse buildings (plus an investment property currently let out as an adult shop,) on a central 0.42 of a Cork city centre acre put up for imaginative redevelopment is what underpins an asking price close to €2m, for the property and site’s owners and vendors, Cork City Council.

Detailed plans of conservation work to retain historic features of a former city centre bank are included in an application to convert it to a business school for University College Cork.

Planning permission is to be sought by the end of the year to facilitate UCC’s hopes to change a historic city-centre bank to a flagship business school.

University College Cork is set to transform a landmark former bank into a flagship business school hub after the city last night agreed to sell the building to the college.

It is understood that the distinctive office block at No 1 South Mall, Cork, has now gone sale agreed with agent, Lisney. This unique building in the heart of Cork’s business district was offered for sale in March of this year on behalf of receiver Michael McAteer of Grant Thornton.

CORK City Council looks set to make a small profit on its plans to sell an historic and elegant bank branch, which it bought just over two years ago, thanks to municipal public realm investments and private developments also on the doorstep of 1 Lapps Quay.

A local authority has defended its decision to place, on the open market, a former bank building it acquired almost two years ago.

Ideas are being sought from the open market to help breathe new life into a city-owned historic former bank building.

Cork Savings Bank

Corcadorca’s new production of an Enda Walsh play is being staged in the building that housed one of Cork’s major financial institutions, writes Colette Sheridan

The Cork Savings Bank served the people of Cork well for a long time.

City officials are banking on the public for ideas on how a historic former bank could get a new lease of life.

The public will have a last chance today to go aboard the LÉ Aoife in Cork, before the naval vessel is taken out of service early next year.

A record number of buildings in Cork City will unlock their doors for the 10th anniversary of Cork  Heritage Open Day.

On Cork City’s Blackrock Road, Dundanion House has had commercial uses for 50 years, but would be a ‘grand’ home, says Tommy Barker.

Bord Gáis is checking out of several of its office spaces on Cork city’s Lapps Quay — just as Cork City Council prepares a €2m quay upgrade, to include the €800,000 purchase of the old Cork Savings Bank at 1 Lapps Quay.

CORK City’s oldest bank building, and one of its very finest architectural statements, is a New Year sale offer at €1.2 million.

The recent closure of the former Cork Savings Bank on Lapps Quay marks the end of a long era of banking in one of Cork’s first buildings, opposite Cork City Hall.

THE busiest spot in Cork City right now has to be directly across the Lee from City Hall, along and behind Lapps Quay.

A MOTHER has given her son’s new business her stamp of approval.