Planning is to be lodged for a €125m, 250,000sq ft office development by Kent railway station near Cork City’s historic docks and quays.

Plans by John Cleary Developments (JCD) for a new, €125 million quayside office scheme on an assembled 1.8 acre site on Cork city’s Penrose Quay, close to the railway station, may bring the company’s tally of offices developed in Cork to well over one million square feet, in just over a decade of activity.

Ireland’s first floating hotel could launch before the end of the year after planning permission was granted for the permanent mooring of a river cruiser at Cork’s Penrose Quay.