A number of bank investments have come to market, with 17 branches nationwide valued at €28.5m, including the Bank of Ireland branch in Mallow, valued at €3.2m, while in Cork, two former bank branches have also come to the open market with Cushman & Wakefield.

It’s many years since Noel Coward said it, but the longevity of his remark shows how acute he was: “Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.”

A West Cork retail investment, previously occupied by a pharmacy has been put up for sale, with dual street access, in the heart of Clonakilty town.

The annual Rebel Og Sports Awards took place at the Clayton Hotel Sliver Springs Hotel on Saturday night.

Chairman of St Vincent’s and deputising for the Lord Mayor, Thomas Gould said: “Parents are looking up to people like you, I’ve 2 daughters aged 9 and 6 it is girls like you I’d like them to emulate.”

GLOBAL coffee giant, Starbucks, is to open its first Cork City centre store, at no 39 Princes Street, a few doors away from the famed English Market.

REBEL ÓG MONTHLY SPORTS AWARDS

In a word-association test, ‘Beara’ would surely be followed by ‘football’. It’s a way of life that far west and as the Urhan U14s showed in 2013, it looks like things will continue that way into the future.

A shop unit that traditionally would have been swamped by frantic, last-minute male shoppers seeking luxury Valentine Day gifts is now itself seeking proposals, and courting a new relationship.

The great and the good of Cork underage GAA will gather tonight for the inaugural annual Rebel Óg Awards dinner at the Rochestown Park Hotel.

With every underage hurling trophy comes greater pressure and expectation for the future, but Blackrock are more than happy to embrace it.

The chairman of Rebel Óg, the fledgling organisation that caters for underage GAA in Cork, is confident they will eradicate the “teething problems” from its first year of operations.

CORK retail veterans Cummins Sports picked up the fourth-quarter Cork Business Association award yesterday.

DAIRYLAND TOM, the star of the opening round of the AIB Bank Stakes when a runaway winner in 28.64, duly followed up in the opening heat of Saturday's second round ... but not in the expected manner.