THE banners are up along Cork city’s St Patrick’s Street for today’s St Patrick’s Day parade — and, selling agents DTZ Sherry FitzGerald have just this week managed to snake in a large ‘Sold’ sign on a high-profile building on this retail thoroughfare which bears the saint’s name.

A MAJOR UK-based retail expo comes to Dublin next month for the first time, as the Irish retail market shows signs of recovery from the economic slump.

Significant internal and external changes to Cork’s Merchants Quay Shopping Centre are proposed in an application lodged last week.

Face of change in Cork City

SHOPPING centres are availing of a safety scheme aimed at preventing the trauma caused by parents becoming separated from their children.