WITH all roads set to lead to Cork Harbour’s Ringaskiddy, thanks to a Port of Cork downriver operations move, and a new, vastly improved road link, the timing of the launch of a major space facility for logistics, storage, and manufacturing is apt.

But managed to scoop up the Match 5 + Lucky Star prize of €333,913.

Offices developed by two of the Celtic Tiger’s busiest Munster developers, John Fleming and John Barry’s Castlelands Construction, in the Cork county towns of Bandon and Mallow have been sold to investors, in deals totalling €3m.

Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers has told referee Don Robertson he owes Erik Sviatchenko an apology after his Dingwall gaffe.

Operating profits at the Chinese-owned firm that operates the luxury Fota Island Resort in Cork fell last year by 37% to €232,845.

Over 70% of the 96 Nama debtors who declared themselves bankrupt have been discharged from their bankruptcy.

EVERY spring when the daffodils come up, half the country must regret not planting more of these cheering bulbs the preceding autumn. 

The Chinese-owned firm that operates the luxury Fota Island Resort hotel in Cork recorded pre-tax profits of just over €113,000 in its first year in business.

Finance minister Michael Noonan has revealed that 92 debtors in Nama — with combined debts of €11bn — have declared themselves bankrupt.

Referees will use vanishing spray in Scotland for the first time this weekend.

The spray – to mark out 10 yards at free-kicks – will be used in the eight William Hill Scottish Cup fixtures. 

According to Joe Leogue (Irish Examiner, October 20), the reaction of Dr John Fleming, the bishop of Killala, to the court case involving a long-serving gay priest who has a 17-year record of impeccable commitment and dedicated service in his diocese, was self-serving and weak. It also demonstrated an unwillingness on the bishop’s part to communicate.

The priest at the centre of a court case dispute with his former partner over a house that they shared has taken a leave of absence from his duties.

A Mayo priest, who was involved in a court dispute over the ownership of a house he shared with a former Franciscan friar, has announced he plans to leave his parish while he considers his commitments.

Farmer groups have raised concerns about the closure of ACC’s retail bank with the loss of 180 jobs.

US Senate leaders have taken the helm in the search for a deal to end the partial government shutdown and avert a federal default.

The focus of efforts to end the government shutdown and prevent a US default has shifted to the Senate, where leaders were in talks aimed at resolving the twin stalemates.

THE former Bandon, Cork Road HQ of Fleming Construction — in receivership and with group debts of €1bn — is for sale.

There has been a sharp increase in Irish people seeking bankruptcy in Britain, according to latest figures released by Britain’s Insolvency Service.

A DEAL worth around €16m has been reached on the first bank/receiver sale of an entire apartment and retail scheme in Cork, at suburban Dennehy’s Cross.

Ian Elliott, the Catholic church’s own watchdog on child protection measures in Ireland, has detailed the policies now in place to prevent child abuse in several dioceses.

Foreign investors aretaking advantage of sharply reduced prices, with the sale of the Burlington, Fota Island Hotel and others attracting American and Chinese investors. Realistic prices are helping to attract these overseas buyers and breathing some life into a moribund market. Tommy Barker says major property sales were also a good sign and it’s likely that receivership sales will feature more strongly in 2013.

Celtic boss Neil Lennon has revealed he was encouraged by yesterday’s meeting with the Scottish Football Association’s compliance officer, Vincent Lunny.

The Thai-Chinese billionaire who is buying the 500-acre Fota Resort for more than €20m is likely to make further Irish investments — and spend heavily on Fota, guaranteeing its future and jobs.

The fourth richest man in China is on the brink of a €20m-plus deal to buy the prestigious Fota Island Golf and Hotel resort in Cork.

Abortion is firmly back in the headlines.

Catholics have been urged to lobby local TDs to reject any liberalisation of abortion laws as Fine Gael and Labour brace for a divisive debate on the issue.

An Irish consortium of buyers is among the handful of bidders who have made the final cut on offers for the Fota Island resort, which is likely to make €20m for Nama.

ZONED development landbanks assembled by the Fleming Group over the past decade is coming up for sale in Blarney, Mallow and Clonakilty — and some may sell for little over farm value, and quite possibly to previous farmer owners of the lands.

A memorial to mark the bravery of a Co Limerick-born policeman is to be restored near O’Connell Bridge in Dublin.

Survivors of industrial abuse have accused the Irish Catholic hierarchy of “trying to cut us dead” in the past year and have threatened, in a protest action, to walk 253km from Cork to Dublin during the week of the Eucharistic Congress.

HOME at last — the Munster Agricultural Society (MAS) has finally found permanent exhibition grounds at Curraheen, Cork, following five years of searching.

NAMA has agreed the sale of 125 acres of land at Curraheen, Co Cork, formerly owned by developer John Fleming, to the Munster Agricultural Society and University College Cork.

IVAN Yates could be the next high-profile businessman to jump ship to Britain to take advantage of more lenient bankruptcy laws after admitting he is unlikely to get through 2012 without his creditors coming calling.

THE 500-acre Fota Island Resort in Cork harbour, which is expected to make between €20 million and €25m, is to get an international sales campaign in January.

CELTIC moved back to within one point of Rangers at the top of the SPL with a comfortable 4-1 win over Dundee United at Parkhead.

ADMINISTRATORS to bankrupt developer John Fleming’s British property empire have secured planning permission for a 225-bedroom three-star hotel, 158 residential units and commercial units on land owned by Fleming Developments UK on Olympic Way near Wembley stadium in north-west London.

HE mixed in circles with the rich and the famous but Lord Thady Dunraven was far from being a “Lord of the Manor” in his beloved Adare.

Having loans in NAMA is no reason for some Irish developers to stop building, especially on foreign shores, writes John Hearne

ALLIED IRISH BANKS is seeking €26 million from Cork businessman and developer John Fleming, on loans used to buy into a US energy company.

A controversial gangster film starring Katie Price’s husband Alex Reid hit a setback today after a bungle over its certificate.

WHAT do independence, great sporting occasions, and the faces of our loved ones have in common? – not a lot, until you consider what your life would be like without them.