Irish and international political rivals must work more closely with each other to stave off the rise of the far right in Europe and the politics of fear in other parts of the world, Green Party leader Eamon Ryan will tell party colleagues today.

Who will go head to head with Dalata in bidding for the investment sale of the Maldron Hotel, in the historic heart of Cork City centre, under Shandon Steeple?

The €4.25m Argos investment, in Cork City centre, facing the Capitol cinema redevelopment site, has been bought by neighbouring developers, Clarendon Properties, with a view to future redevelopment of their Queens Old Castle holding, on the Grand Parade.

At a call recently, my client and I were discussing the importance of feeding colostrum.

Investment property activity is continuing through to year’s end in and around Cork city centre streets by the Penneys site, which is expected to go forward for planning permission next month for a major redevelopment, after a two-year site assembly

A chance to buy 24 Cork apartments, 11 in the city centre in a quality, contemporary scheme and 13 in Passage West, all for €3.5 million, has come to market with DTZ Sherry FitzGerald, who’ll also sell in two specific lots.

A broad portfolio in Cork and Waterford of land, houses, sites and other investments associated with developer Dan Mulvihill of Rossdale Enterprises has been put to market, expected to fetch €10-15 million, making it one of the region’s largest non-retail portfolios to be off-loaded.

Global consulting engineering company, Arup, is to move into new Cork City offices, at One Albert Quay, in time for its 70th anniversary.

Patrickswell bring the only 100% record into the knockout stages of the Limerick senior hurling championship after a 1-18 to 0-19 win over Limerick and Munster club champions Kilmallock.

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A PEARL of a riverside Cork site, between the gates of UCC and the city centre, is for sale for €2.5m.

INVESTORS seeking a return close to 13% on their €1m investment should beat a path to Cork’s Marlboro Street and to nos 40/41, home to travel company Trailfinders, which is occupying on a 25-year lease from 2006.

Less than two months after their All-Ireland Club final defeat to Ballyhale Shamrocks, Kilmallock got off to a winning start in the group stages of the Limerick senior hurling championship.

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A LIMERICK City bank building, on O’Connell Street and Bedford Row, is being sold for as much as €10m — a recent Munster-bank investment sale price record.

Two waterfront apartment blocks in Cork’s suburban Rochestown, totalling 50 units, are up for sale in one lot, with a guide price of €6.75 million, or an average of €135,000 each. They come to market at time of proven and competitive demand for multi-let investments.

Ballyhale Shamrocks (Kilkenny) 1-18 v Kilmallock (Limerick) 1-18:

So much for pre-match expectations. Kilmallock had shown great resolve and commitment to win Munster.

Kilmallock broke a six-year hoodoo for Munster club hurling champions this afternoon when they easily overcame Portaferry of Down by 2-19 to 0-12 at Cusack Park in Mullingar.

The sale and €75m- €100m redevelopment of Cork City’s prime Capitol Cinema site for a food-related innovation centre, retail and office block represents "a turning point for the city" and will lead to renewal of a whole section of Cork, it has been claimed.

DEVELOPER John Cleary hasemerged as the preferred bidder for Cork city centre’s prime Capitol cinema site on Grand Parade, and aims to build a mix of big-box retail units, aimed at the likes of Zara and Forever 21, and fourth generation offices on the site which links back to Patrick’s Street. 

The draws for Cork and Limerick’s 2015 County Championships are already made, but which clubs will be celebrating into the Christmas and beyond after successful campaigns? Our reporters provide the anorak’s guide.

Amid the hustle and bustle of Christmas shopping, an iconic Cork store that has traded for more than 120 years closed its doors for the last time.

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West Cork’s Westlodge Hotel in Bantry is now facing a sale by tender, by December 5, to effect a sale by the year-end CGT expiry deadline.

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TWO sites aimed at builders at East Cork’s Bailick Road come to market this month, one with agents Lisney, the other with DTZ Sherry FitzGerald.

A retail unit acquired in 1999 as the second ever Aldi Irish store is up for sale by tender as an investment: it’s the anchor tenant in the Westside Retail Park, Ballincollig in Cork, on a lease set to run until 2024.

AS Nama this week brings 588 apartments for sale for €116 million in Dublin, aimed at REITS and overseas investment groups, offers on a smaller scale of apartment blocks maybe of more interest to private buyers conscious of the end of year expiry date of the CGT exemption for investments held for seven years.

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Tramore crowned a remarkable week for Munster golf clubs at the AIG Cups and Shields national finals when they claimed the Senior Cup at Carton House.

Munster champions Tramore needed all their fighting spirit after six years of campaigning together to reach today’s AIG Senior Cup final at Carton House.

INVESTOR demand for quality buys outside the main two or three Irish cities is about to be sampled — with the offer of a fine AIB bank branch in Waterford City, with an excellent covenant.

Lisselan, the picturesque little nine-hole club just outside of Clonakilty, savoured a little piece of national success in 2010 when they reached the final of the Irish Mixed Foursomes Championship at Castlerock.

FIRST the train left the station, then the station left the town — so what’s now coming down the tracks for this Baltimore, West Cork, coastal property?

WEST Cork tourist harbour village, Baltimore, last weekend hosted the Pirate Festival to commemorate the sacking of Baltimore in 1631 — and now there’s a chance to ‘plunder’ a lot of retail trade in the bustling summer resort.

Builders are back in business in cities like Dublin and Cork in the bid to get sites for a house-hungry market — and now an outer suburban site comes to market in Cork to test appetites for something just a bit further out.

EVEN if the neighbour at Kilcoe doesn’t come out of his castle keep to buy Mannin Island, estate agent Eoin Ryan of DTZ Sherry FitzGerald has other irons in the fire when it come to this Roaring Water Bay property offer.

Just gone ‘sale agreed’ with DTZ Sherry FitzGerald is the site of the former Crow’s Nest bar in Cork’s western suburbs, at Victoria Cross, near UCC, County Hall, and the Kingsley Hotel.