LIMERICK city’s flagship urban renewal project, Gardens International, is 50% tenanted on its official launch this week, anchored by Nordic Aviation Capital, with the remainder of its c 10,000 sq m under active negotiation.

THE owners of a Cork shopping centre asked Marks and Spencer to pay more than double the fixed lease rate for the centre’s anchor site just days before M&S was due to take over the plot from Roches Stores, according to M&S.

A BRITISH department store group is close to finalising the takeover of Roches Stores in a deal worth just under €30 million to the Cork-based retailer.

TRAINER, Pat Hughes, lashed out at an on-course bookmaker after his newcomer, Farmer Brown, had landed a gamble in the Kevin McManus Champion Bumper at Limerick yesterday.

Conor Keane, Business Correspondent