Several strategic investment projects worth almost €500m will transform Cork City and generate thousands of jobs over the next few years, the city’s business leaders were told last night.

A development company in Nama has objected to a massive office block project in Cork City which has the potential to deliver 2,000 jobs.

TWO office sites in Cork City and suburbs are competing to woo a new US FDI occupier — with the promise of up to 500 IT-related jobs.

EAGLE-EYED investors will swoop on a portfolio sale of nine apartments in Cork’s Jacobs Island — in a block called the Falcon.