There’s a bit of steely backbone to the three-bed semi-d at 34 Ardfield Meadows, Grange, Douglas, Cork: its builders Fleming Construction pioneered their own version of steel-frame construction, and walls with sandwiches of steel and dense insulation winged their way from a massive factory in Ringaskiddy to the four corners of this country, as well as the UK.

Tommy Barker reports on a detached house sale at Waterfall, Cork

THE 500-acre Fota Island Resort in Cork harbour, which is expected to make between €20 million and €25m, is to get an international sales campaign in January.

TWO of the 52 houses built in the Fleming Construction Innishannon, Cork scheme Ard Aoibhinnn are to be auctioned Thursday next in the Dublin Allsop/Space sale of distressed assets.

Fine Gael's Brendan Griffin is on course to take a seat in the South Kerry constituency as he currently has 8,808 votes.

ALLIED IRISH BANKS is seeking €26 million from Cork businessman and developer John Fleming, on loans used to buy into a US energy company.

GOLF directors at Cork’s Fota Island Resort insist it is business as usual despite the appointment of a receiver at the prestigious facility last week.

A SYMBOL of better times, Heatherfield will remain the quality house building calling card of troubled Fleming Construction: the collapsed entity now reportedly has debts of around €1.8 billion, well over the initial €1 billion sum widely referred to since ACC Bank first inched the rug out from under the group in 2009.

A LIQUIDATOR was appointed by the High Court yesterday for the winding up of three insolvent companies in the Cork-based Fleming building group, which has debts of more than €1 billion.

West Cork was today reeling from the news that up to 140 people are set to lose their jobs, following the Supreme Court decision to reject a restructuring plan for the Bandon-based Fleming Construction Group.

DUTCH-owned ACC bank pulled the finger out of a dyke which held back a tide of debt washing around west Cork-based developers Fleming Construction.

ACC BANK will ask the High Court today to wind up three insolvent companies in the Fleming building group, which has debts of more than €1 billion, following the Supreme Court’s decision to end court protection for them.

The Supreme Court will rule early next year on whether to approval a survival plan for three companies in the Fleming group.

The survival plan for three companies in the Fleming group received the unanimous support of its creditors with the exception of Dutch owned ACC bank, the Supreme Court heard today.

The survival scheme for the Fleming construction group which has debts of €1bn does not contain any commitment of continuing financial support from its banking creditors, the Supreme Court heard today.

A High Court judge will decide on Monday if he is to extend court protection from its creditors to the parent companies of a firm within the John J Fleming Construction group.

WITH €1 billion in debts and 650 jobs at stake, Cork developer Fleming Construction has been given breathing space after an examiner was appointed to one of its indebted subsidiaries.

AN examiner was appointed by the High Court yesterday to rescue a company within developer John Fleming’s construction group after the Dutch-owned ACC Bank failed in its bid to have a receiver appointed.

RESIDENTS fighting multi-million euro plans to build on the former home of a leading GAA club have raised several concerns just days before a crucial decision by the state’s planning appeals board.

A new painless way of paying a house purchase deposit, called an Exchange Bond is a feature being introduced by builders Fleming Construction.

VERY competitive pricing, and a high-specification, mark out the Fleming Construction homes launched today in Cobh, Co Cork.

THE army may come to the rescue of one of the country’s biggest builders and developers, Fleming Construction.

THE fate of South Western Services (SWS) will be known before Christmas. The sale process will be handled by Merrion Capital and all sides are committed to the sale this time.

PROFITS at Cork construction and hotel firm JJ Fleming Holdings jumped by nearly 15% last year, according to accounts just filed at the Companies Registration Office.

THE best - and the most expensive - has been kept for last at roof level in Cork’s Trinity Court.

A THIRD of an acre site in Bishopstown, and a four-bedroomed detached property just a minute from the South Link - rare indeed.

FOTA Island’s golf course and 550 acres of land have been sold to clear the way for a €130 million development.

CASTLETOWNSHEND is the little village which was home to one half of the Somerville and Ross team, writers of the Irish RM stories.

TWO different Cork developers have ended up with different pieces of a jigsaw puzzle site for a prime Douglas residential site.