GREAT Island in Cork, home to Cobh, Verolme, Rushbrooke and right around to East Ferry and Marlogue Woods, has witnessed many a ship launch.

ONLY a few years old, and again done up to a high standard by its investor owner, no 46 Monastery Terrace, on Cork’s Monastery Hill along Blarney Street, is as likely to lure an astute investor as a private owner-occupier.

Construction company McInerney Holdings has reported a mammoth pre-tax profit leap of 100% to €17.03m. Pre-tax profits for the same period last year (six months to end-June) were €8.53m.

THE lands that formed part of the old St Joseph's Monastery in Blarney St in Cork are slowly being covered by houses and beginning to form one of the most unusual integrated developments in the city, despite the fact that planning permission was given before the implementation of Part V of the Planning Act 2000.

WILL an out-of town developer move far enough south to take on the redevelopment of the Dunkathel estate - and to outbid the handful of locals keen to get their hands on a site for a c300 house scheme plus luxury hotel?