Hot on the heels of the circa €4m investment sale of the former Pavilion retail unit on Cork city’s prime shopping thoroughfare, St Patrick’s Street, comes another section of the 1921-built ex-cinema.

Cork City is due to get a significant new, branded Italian restaurant and deli — a Carluccio’s.

An overall rent of €100,000 a year is sought for the ground and first floors of “the best pitch in Douglas.”

The classically styled limestone building on Cork city’s historical Coal Quay, occupied by the successful restaurant and bar the Cornstore, has been put up for sale as an invesment.

British pub chain JD Wetherspoons has defended charging Cork punters more for a pint of the city’s famous Beamish stout than in two of its bars in the capital.

We thought we seen it all when we clapped our eyes on that famous receipt from Dublin’s Temple Bar last year, but we were sadly mistaken.

A further €1m-plus Cork city bar and nightclub sale has just concluded, with the Bowery on Tuckey Street selling off-market: it comes just as Wetherspoons are poised to reopen a premises now standing them a total investment of as much as €3.5m, a bar investment level seemingly back to boom time values.

The historic Woodford bar in Cork city centre, with a licensed and drinks trade link stretching back to 1750, has been bought out of receivership for c €1.25 million.

The world is halfway through season five of Game of Thrones, but in a new video two pubs in Cork clearly think they’re part of the Seven Kingdoms.

TWO prime Waterford City investments worth €13.5m — one next to where Wetherspoons have acquired a 4,000 sq ft city footprint for a new bar — are new to market for a local family of investor/owners.

IS THERE a market yet for a pub sale in Cork city, significantly over the €1m mark? A bar in an historic building, long associated with wine and spirits company Woodford Bourne, aims to find out, as the Woodford Bar comes to market seeking a new Bourne identity.

The change of use of the former Marymount Hospice building at St Patrick’s Hospital on Cork’s northside, to a third-level college, is not exempt from planning requirements, An Bord Pleanála has decided.

JD Wetherspoon has said a “Wetherspoons Cork” Facebook page slating the prices charged by a number of Cork pubs is not linked in any way to the pub chain.

A MAJOR UK-based retail expo comes to Dublin next month for the first time, as the Irish retail market shows signs of recovery from the economic slump.

Not content with running 12 pubs and a brewery, publican Benny McCabe has revealed plans to develop two micro-distilleries in the heart of Cork City.

Here’s a run down of today’s business headlines.

Pub giant JD Wetherspoon has said it may open an outlet in Waterford by the end of this year following its recent acquisition of two prominent city centre sites, with 40 jobs linked to the move.

Auctions were where much of the sales activity was for the Irish market in 2014 — with Shame and Hunger actor Michael Fassbender among those showing an appetite for a slice of the action. 

An equestrian centre near the Cork suburb of Rochestown could become a retirement village if a recent planning application is successful.

A judge has heard how a British pub group plans to tackle drunkenness and disorderly behaviour in Ireland.

Its first opening in the Republic may be in the home of the black stuff, but Wetherspoons could get a black mark from the Dublin locals as it has decided not to stock Guinness.

Waterford’s historic T&H Doolan’s inn has been bought by a bar and hospitality family from the south-east for over €500,000 at a lively auction.

FOR the human body, a doctor will assess a patient’s well-being by their general appearance and by checking their blood pressure.

One of Britain’s biggest pub landlords is taking over a string of traditional Irish pubs — and turning them into brighter, music-free, models of his famous UK chain.

PUBLICANS and the drinks industry are largely to blame for the demise of pubs. Draft real ale is unavailable in 99% of Irish pubs – there is a selection of overpriced insipid chemical lagers, one-keg beer, and thankfully three stouts, all of which are the same strength – about 4.5%.

British pub giant Wetherspoons is to ban smoking in all its outlets by May 2006 amid fears that drinkers are staying away from public houses because they are too smoky, it was announced today.

GLOUCESTER was one tough mother of a weekend.