Employment lawyers are eagerly awaiting the enactment of a Bill which should bring some clarity into the increasingly fraught area of data protection rights in the workplace.

Are the good times really back for the property business? Certainly a number of lead indicators are very positive with the best indicator of all, the crane count, at its highest level since the boom times of the early to mid 2000s.

Cork-founded law firm Ronan Daly Jermyn (RDJ) was recently named Law Firm of the Year at the Irish Law Awards. Pádraig Hoare talks with managing partner Richard Martin.

The location of two, 19th century stone warehouse buildings (plus an investment property currently let out as an adult shop,) on a central 0.42 of a Cork city centre acre put up for imaginative redevelopment is what underpins an asking price close to €2m, for the property and site’s owners and vendors, Cork City Council.

PRICES are back on the march in Cork’s suburban and high-end Hettyfield: but, they are still are a long way short of boom-time levels of €1m and even €2m asking prices and sales.

Recruitment firms on the move and in an upward trajectory themselves can be seen as a bellweather of change in the wider economy. Thus, the denizens of Cork’s South Mall will be glad to see the arrival of not one, but two such firms to the South Mall: FRS Recruitment, and IT recruitment specialists Stelfox.

Planners have given the green light for a €50m, nine-storey office block which could deliver up to 2,000 jobs for Cork city.

Construction cranes could be back on Cork City’s skyline next year, with plans being lodged today for a €50m eight-storey office block alongside City Hall.

City buyers cutting cloth to their financial means, stressing location over size Tommy Barker reports.

A photographer has gone to new heights for his first exhibition.

A Cork office scheme which is due to host several hundred new EMC jobs, has just been bought as an investment by Irish Life for as much as €40m.

Cork’s City Gate Park in Mahon today takes a further step towards major IT talent clustering with confirmation of the arrival of hundreds of EMC Corporation jobs to the new office campus.

AN ENTIRE South Mall building, opposite the Imperial Hotel, is coming to market for lease because overhead tenants, law firm Ronan Daly Jermyn, are relocating to City Gate Park in Mahon, Cork.

The wife of former Tánaiste Peter Barry was described at her funeral Mass yesterday as “a lady in the best sense of the word” who had a caring heart that reached out to all.

CORK-based law firm Ronan Daly Jermyn (RDJ) saw off its Dublin rivals to win the Client Service Award for Ireland at the Chambers Europe Awards 2010 in London.

Law firm, Ronan Daly Jermyn (RDJ), have been confirmed as the official legal advisor to Munster Rugby.

GALWAY legal firm William B Glynn solicitors has been acquired by Ronan Daly Jermyn (RDJ) in a €3 million merger which propels the Cork firm into the top 10 legal firms in the country.