A recently relet restaurant in Cork city centre, between the GPO and St Patrick’s St, and part of a corner-set property with two other tenants earning €150,000 combined per annum, is for sale, priced at €2.1m.

The €9.5 million sale of Irish Life investment properties in Cork and Limerick includes two Patrick Street Cork units set for increased profile from next year, when the Capitol Cinema retail site is completed, bringing a strong anchor (Zara? H&M?) to this end of Patrick Street.

TWO key moves this week may put Cork city on the investor and retail radar, as the city centre inches back from the slack years of recession.

The investment arm of the Davy Group has made a further retail swoop on Cork city’s Patrick Street, having bought the Moderne last year for circa €4-5 million in an off-market deal.

Seventeen people have been arrested in a series of co-ordinated raids on underground websites selling illegal drugs, a top Europol official said yesterday, in one of the largest crackdowns on the so-called ‘darknet’ to date.

Katrina Brooker meets the tech investors with the Midas touch

Apple is orchestrating a $3.2bn acquisition of headphone make and music streaming distributor Beats Electronics, according to a report.

Twitter fell further after hitting a record low yesterday following the lifting of restrictions on share sales by insiders and early investors.

Judi Dench is up for the Best Actress award at the Golden Globes tonight, for her role playing an Irish woman in the film 'Philomena'.

Victoria Beckham has been crowned Woman Of The Decade at the 2013 Glamour Women of the Year Awards in London.

We meet Niamh Sullivan, 31, and Marguerite Tierney, 30.

As Feb 14 approaches, Carol O’Callaghan offers some Valentines gift suggestions, for both him and her, which come in at €20 or less

Limerick confectionery company Pandora Bell is finding a market for handmade swirly lollipops and old-fashioned salted caramels not just in Ireland but also in the US, Russia, and the Middle East.

This week street trend meets Gillian Gilbourne and Josephine Kennedy

* Danish jewellery brand, Pandora, has opened its first Irish flagship store at Cork’s Winthrop Street (021 4276228; www.pandora.net).