IN the first five months of 2015, office activity in Cork has been dominated by the FDI sector, with five substantial transactions completed.

Hibernia Reit yesterday said it had acquired two more properties in the Dublin Docklands for €4.6m. Both are on Lime Street in the South Docks area and are part of the strategic development zone designated by Dublin City Council.

A section of the M8 motorway will be closed next month to enhance drainage works amid concern that climate change could make the main Cork-Dublin road unsafe.

GOLFERS TAKE A SWING AT EACH OTHER

An Bord Pleanála has rejected an application to build a new 170-bedroom hotel in Dublin city centre.

A 95% auction success rate was recorded at last week’s IAM Sold/Munster Property Auction sell-off of 20 lots, with all but one finding new owners, evidence of the strength of cash buying and investor interest.

An IFSC Dublin investment in an historic old building, a thatched Co Tipperary holiday village, clusters of apartments on Cork’s MacCurtain Street and a number of bars are among the next auction date — Jul 4, Independence Day — for Allsops.

Tommy Barker and Rose Martin scan a selection of trading up homes around the country.

FIVE people, including a young child, were injured yesterday after two cars collided on the M18 motorway about six kilometres from Ennis, closing part of the route for two hours.

BIGGER than the average semi, this property at 11, Upper Clevedon in Kilmoney, Carrigaline, Co Cork, also comes with more square footage.

YOU can’t get a bigger house or a better location in Ballincollig than this property at 11, Limeworth in Carriganarra.

COULD someone please explain to me why cars must be towed away to the pound in Cork city at 10.15 on a Monday night?

Road restrictions caused by this morning's explosions at a British oil depot led to travel chaos today with more disruption likely for the Monday morning rush-hour.

I AM a frequent user of the Cork-to- Cobh train with a simple complaint that would cost little to rectify. Trouble is Iarnród Éireann has no complaints procedure. I have left my telephone number twice at the ticket desk.

Exploration company African Diamonds has been awarded a mining licence in the Kono district of Sierra Leone.

I WAS astonished at the headline “Superquinn axes 80 jobs to cut costs” (The Irish Examiner, August 14) which suggested some sort of emergency measure had been put in place when in fact the job losses were part of a voluntary redundancy scheme as a result of a 35m investment with 240 new jobs.

IN regard to Paul Murphy's letter yesterday (Irish Examiner, July 17) calling for a clampdown on landlords who reject rent allowance tenants, I would argue that the problem goes a little further.