An East Cork film company wants people with memories of a former dance hall to assist them in the making of a new documentary.

Irish hotels are back in business - they’ve sold like hot-cakes during 2014, with over 50 finding new owners, with €450m changing hands in the process.

A seaside town in Cork has been dealt a severe blow as its main strand looks set to be shut to swimmers next summer over water safety concerns.

JOINING Savills’ offer of the Dundrum House Hotel in Tipperary for sale at €2.75m, and the 110-bed Heritage Hotel in Portlaoise for €1.5m, is another Munster hotel — a beachside offer at €450,000, just waiting for the tide of opportunity to turn.

A tourist town without an adequate sewerage system is set to lose blue flag designation on three of its beaches.

The reduced price of these homes includes furniture and appliances, Tommy Barker reports

THIS time last year you could only buy the holiday homes at Mariner’s Bay in Redbarn, East Cork, as an investment, complete with tax break for rentals and guaranteed income.

ONCE it was hormone-driven, now it is holiday-driven, value-driven and tax-driven.

Ian Fortune