A RECORD number of planning applications have been received in the last week by Cork County Council, signalling a boom start to 2006.

IRELAND’S ninth Radisson SAS Hotel, located in Little Island, Cork, was officially opened last night by the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Micheál Martin.

A NEW international four-star hotel in Little Island is expected to create 145 new jobs and pump millions of euro into the Cork economy.

YOU mightn’t have to cook the books to see a tax advantage in an East Cork holiday home development — it plans to make the adjoining Ballymaloe Cookery School a source of rental income.

WITH the new by-pass plan for Fermoy and a new River Blackwater crossing inching ahead, a new house development close to its path will proves the adage that development follows roads — and in this case precedes them.