There is an appetite among international investors to capitalise on the expected property recovery with over €6bn ready to invest in Ireland, according to Jones Lang LaSalle.

A WOMAN who lost both her parents when the oil tanker Betelgeuse blew up in Bantry harbour spoke publicly for the first time about her family’s grief yesterday — exactly 30 years after Ireland’s biggest peacetime maritime disaster.

IRISH investors spent €3 billion buying foreign properties in the three months to June of this year bringing the total spend this year to €5bn.