Plans have been unveiled for a €10m flood-relief scheme to protect a Cork satellite town which suffered serious damage in summer 2012.

SHELBOURNE Development has pulled out the purchase of the Lloyds Building in London. The deal was worth €365 million.

ABBOTSTOWN is emerging as the strongest location for the national stadium — a little over a year after the Government was forced to drop the controversial E1 billion ‘Bertie Bowl’ planned for the location.

THE Government was told yesterday it could have a National Stadium for as little as €235 million of taxpayers’ money, under a plan put forward by the rugby and football authorities.

THE officers of the IRFU and the FAI will today tell the minister for sport that Lansdowne Road is their preferred option as the site for the proposed new football stadium.