Seán Kelly MEP has warned that the Coronavirus poses the biggest financial threat to Europe and globally, since the 2008 crash.

An Bord Pleanála has approved the project, which includes a 14-storey building at Bank Place, featuring some 13,000 sq m of office space.

One of the oldest buildings at University College Cork (UCC) has opened for the first time as a state of the art, one-stop-shop for students following a multi-million euro transformation.

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That construction is to be funded by €16bn in cash held outside the annual spending budget in order to stay inside fiscal space guidelines.

As Britain’s electorate endorsed just one Green Party candidate to sit in one of the House of Commons’ 650 seats, EU leaders promised to deliver a major economic plan to confront the climate emergency by making Europe the first carbon-neural continent within three decades.

The new developments will include 52 homes at The Miles, Clonakilty, 50 houses at Poundhill, Skibbereen, and another 50 in Oakwood, Macroom.

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Research from PwC shows that 31% of food-related SMEs have stalled investment since the 2016 Brexit referendum

A major loan provided by the European Investment Bank (EIB) will enable Cork County Council to kickstart €250m of projects it hopes to complete within the next eight to 10 years.

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New policies for a more aggressive approach to tackling dereliction in Cork city have been agreed as work finally starts on a 255-bed student apartment complex on a long-term derelict site.

Expect more spinouts from UCC, more investment in innovative new start-ups, and more long-term partnerships between UCC researchers and industry — with the arrival of Dr Rich Ferrie as the new director of UCC Innovation.

Companies which have participated in the National Digital Research Centre’s accelerator programmes are now collectively worth €600m, and have attracted €250m in follow-on investment raised to date.

Germany’s KfW Group is pulling out of loans for new coal projects, joining other European development banks that have already followed orders of their governments to minimise exposure to the world’s most widely used power-station fuel.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has remained tight-lipped on whether the Government will nominate European commissioner Phil Hogan for another term.

€350m is to be invested in Dublin Airport.

Europe holds the key to solving the housing crisis and action now could help "restore trust" in the EU, Labour's Ireland South MEP candidate Sheila Nunan believes.

A new €80m development in Trinity College Dublin will allow it to continue to be one of the world's best business schools.

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Labour is demanding to know what the consortium leading the €5bn broadband project will put up front as the party warned that a tribunal may rake over the costs and deal for the project in a decade.

The Daa expects to retain control of Cork Airport and plans to invest €40m in its development over the next four-to-five years.

A High Court judge has overturned the Information Commissioner’s decision requiring University College Cork to disclose to RTÉ certain information about a €100m loan agreement between the college and the European Investment Bank (EIB).

A High Court judge has overturned the Information Commissioner's decision requiring University College Cork to disclose to RTÉ certain information about a €100m loan agreement between the college and the European Investment Bank.

Former Minister of State for Housing and Planning, Labour TD Jan O’Sullivan says that Rebuilding Ireland is not fit for purpose and she is calling on the Government to admits its housing policy is failing.

The project is expected to employ up to 3,000 people and will be the largest inner-city commercial development outside of Dublin.

The Taoiseach is creating instability at a critical time for Brexit, Fianna Fáil leader Micheal Martin has said.

Hospital patients’ records are to be stored on a new €225m digital system which is to be rolled out across the country.

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The next low-cost farmer loan scheme will be focused on long-term capital investment and finance, unlike the previous cash flow scheme.