This month saw the latest move to enhance the offering of a business now run by a fourth generation of leaders — frozen storage.

Hundreds of mourners came to bid a final farewell to one of Cork’s most prominent businessmen and philanthropists, James O’Sullivan, yesterday.

A recovery in trade in one of Cork’s city centre’s under-performing streets — Academy Street — is heralded with the opening this weekend of a new restaurant, CoqBull, which replaces hospitality supremo Jay Bourke’s long-established Cafe Bar Deli.

For years the smell of pipe tobacco acted as a kind of GPS that told you you were in the vicinity of M&P O’Sullivan, the cosy tobacco shop on Academy St in Cork City.

THE main house, Brookfield, made headlines in a major sale in the 1990s, and now the lodge looks to follow suit.