Site clearance works could start within weeks on a Camden Quay office building of 72,000 sq ft, and which could have a transformative impact on an old Cork city centre area less than 100m from St Patrick Street.

SETTING its crescent face firmly against the pessimism currently in the Irish tourism sector is the €30 million new tourism and catering building in Cork’s Institute of Technology — due to go on site within weeks.

“ALL along the watchtower princes kept the view while all the women came and went, barefoot servants, too”. Bob Dylan might not have had Leamcon Tower, at Knock, Schull, in mind when he wrote that song, but it kind of fits.