A HISTORIC building — a symbol of one of the country’s top hurling schools, which produced an All-Ireland-winning taoiseach — is to be transformed into a cultural centre.

A LOCAL authority has made €10 million profit and secured free all-day staff parking for 999 years from the sale of a landmark quayside building to a property tycoon.

CORK city council will begin public consultations next week as part of a masterplan for an area critics say is plagued with overdevelopment.