A Kiwi from the Cook Islands, and a local award-wining food entrepreneur, are to head up the new restaurant/cafe in the €10m Nano Nagle centre, in the historic heart of Cork city.

CORK city’s ‘secret’ garden oasis is set to blossom, as the long-hidden horticultural treasure at the green centre of the new Nano Nagle Place €10.5m heritage, education, and community investment got an unofficial, soft opening yesterday.

First South Africa, then the Rockefeller Centre, New York – and, now Cork is about to be hit by Rain.

Two compact-sized office units, each tenanted but on short or expired leases, have been put up for sale at Cork’s Cleve Business Park, priced at €240,000 and €250,000.

During the downturn, it seemed that every second small retail letting was to a barber’s or a hairdresser’s salon.