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.

Annual expenditure on Mayo’s various inter-county teams will never again drop below €1m, treasurer Kevin O’Toole has warned.

Thirsty Cork punters will be able to take a dip in the amber ocean come September when the Great Irish Beer Festival hits the city.

Finishing touches, and staff training among a multi-national barista workforce were in full swing on Cork’s rejuvenating Maylor Street yesterday in the run-up to the opening of a sizeable new cafe/coffee shop, Warren Allen Coffee, set to employ up to 15 when it officially opens its doors next Monday.

A run-down on all this weekend’s action...

Back-in-the-game sports retailers Elverys are continuing to hit the ground running, with a second Cork store off the busy ring road just acquired, hot on the heels of its just-opened city centre presence on Oliver Plunkett Street.

TEE-ED up for a sale is Unit No 1 at Cork City’s increasingly prominent commercial hub, Penrose Wharf — the point at which the N27 city route from Cork’s airport ends at the N8.

Leading Irish sports retailer Elverys has acquired the landmark Maher’s Sports business in the heart of Cork city.

Cork travel to face Galway in the Allianz NHL on Sunday and boss Jimmy Barry-Murphy has made a raft of changes for the game, a total of five alterations since the win over Dublin.

TIPPERARY’S Denis Maher has confirmed that he suffered a dislocated shoulder in Sunday’s Allianz Hurling League Division 1A victory over Galway at Semple Stadium.

Mayo GAA are hoping a pioneering player welfare initiative will reduce injuries throughout the county over the coming years.

More than 1,700 jobs have been saved through the use of the examinership process for troubled companies in the first nine months of the year — the majority in small-and medium-sized businesses.

More than 1,200 jobs were saved as a result of firms entering examinership in the first half of the year.

Whoever wins today’s Connacht semi-final will be on the road for the final.

Mayo GAA have welcomed news that they will not be sponsored by a company owned by Newcastle United’s owner Mike Ashley.

The management team of Elverys Sports, led by chief executive Patrick Rowland, has emerged as the winning bid in the hotly-contested battle for control of the sports retail chain.

Employees of Irish retailer Elverys Sports ramped up the campaign to protect their jobs with highly visible displays at GAA matches in Dublin and Mayo over the weekend.

A judge has continued High Court protection for Elverys Sports after receiving an independent accountant’s report expressing the view the company has a reasonable prospect of survival.

An interim examiner has been appointed by the High Court to Elverys Sports, which employs 654 people in 56 stores nationwide.

Mayo GAA officials are “100% sure” Elverys will honour their sponsorship deal with the county despite the retail chain announcing it was going into receivership yesterday.

Shops across Dublin are experiencing serious shortages in the county’s new GAA jersey due to unprecedented demands.

Double European silver medallist Derval O’Rourke has launched a scathing attack on the treatment of elite athletes in the country.

As Down prepare themselves for a second Championship battle with Derry in five weeks, Benny Coulter has slammed Pat Spillane’s criticism of his team following their Ulster semi-final defeat by Donegal.

Carrying the name of one of the most famous yachts to ever sail out of Crosshaven in Cork, the bar the Moonduster Inn is due a sale rendezvous at the next Allsops auction early December.

MAYO County Board have been asked to draw up a financial plan to pay off a €10.5 million debt for works carried out at MacHale Park.

MAYO firm Elverys Sports have secured the naming rights to Castlebar venue McHale Park, meaning Mayo GAA’s home ground will be known as Elverys McHale Park in a five year deal.

MAYO’S bid to claim their first All-Ireland title since 1951 has been give a major financial boost with the news that Elverys Sport will remain on board as the county’s main sponsor.

New Zealand captain Richie McCaw said he is "pretty excited’ at the thought of playing at the Aviva Stadium this weekend, as he contemplated the prospect of becoming the All Blacks’ most-capped player of all-time on the ground where he made his Test debut back in 2001.

Sometimes a significant percentage drive ourselves into a crazy belief that the referee is totally biased against our team.

Elverys Sports, the well-known sportswear retailers, are to open a new store in Croke Park as an official retail partner to the GAA.

Carna Transport Mercy and Vienna Woods Glanmire today earned the right to face each other in the Women's SuperLeague final next Sunday.

The Connacht hordes will be even louder than expected for Saturday's European Challenge Cup tie at the Sportsground as Sale Sharks have returned a large block of stand tickets.

A LEADING fitness expert has warned that GAA players are dangerously overworked, know little about their nutritional needs and have far too little recovery time after training and matches.

THE family home of one of Limerick’s busiest and best-known developers, the late Robert Parkes, is up for sale.