A restaurant-building investment, in the belly of Cork City’s food district, the Huguenot Quarter, is for sale, with three tenants in all, including a long-established eatery, the Strasbourg Goose.

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.

A SUPER-STRONG land sale result in the heart of Killarney by the National Park at Port Road, via private auction, “is very good news for Killarney,” says local agent Tom Spillane, as 6.45 acres of residential development land sold for €2.45 million, for a receiver.

Irish-owned fuels company Inver Energy has announced new financing facilities to fund the growth of its fuel import and marketing business in Ireland and the UK.

Kinsale’s Carlton House hotel, developed by Gable Holdings in 2006 on a wooded 90 acre site overlooking Cork's scenic Oysterhaven Bay at a then-reported cost of €35m, is now for sale with Savills, for receivers, guiding €4.25 million.

Expected to sell in two lots is a Killarney golf course with a 20-year pedigree, overlooking 200 year old trees, a 15th century castle - and the four-story shell of an uncompleted 120-bed hotel and lodges project.

Top Killarney residential development land is for sale, guided at €100,000 an acre, for a plot within a short walk of the busy tourist capital.

PRE-TAX profits at a Cork-based oil importer and distributor declined by 17% in 2010 to €3.6 million in spite of revenues climbing to €258.6m.

A CORK-based importer and distributor of oil and coal last year increased its pre-tax profits by 53% to €4.4 million after increasing the size of its business by 30% to €94m, according to the directors’ report attached to the accounts filed by Inver Energy Ltd with the Companies Registration Office.

THREE of the largest fuel distributors outside of the greater Dublin area have joined ranks to develop one of Europe’s most advanced oil terminals at Foynes Port.

YOUR report headlined ‘Scramble to see the light at Newgrange’ (Irish Examiner, December 21) described Ireland’s greatest monument as a tomb.