A historic convent in a Cork suburb which has been converted into 27 apartments, including five penthouses, is for sale as one lot guiding €3.75m price tag — nearly 14 years after it left religious order hands.

West Cork town Clonakilty may have an Aldi store next year across the road from a recently opened Lidl, following a reported €2m sale of the high-profile Waterfront site yesterday.

THE landlord of Cork city’s newest primary healthcare centre has strongly denied that a methadone clinic is to be established at the Blackrock premises.

ALREADY extended, and with a kitchen smartly upgraded, 14 The Avenue off Church Road, Cork is a great Blackrock trader-upper.

CORK’S Lord Mayor danced a jig on the banks of the Lee yesterday to invite Irish dancers from all over the country to the city next month for a world record-breaking attempt.

NO 2 The Avenue in Rockfield is up close and personal — it is just one of four houses in the estate actually on Church Road in Cork’s Blackrock suburb.