The HSE has started using the Pairc Ui Chaoimh stadium in Cork as a Covid-19 testing centre with up to 1,000 people to be processed each day.

TWELVE years after the Irish property, construction, and economic crash, work is finally set to start on the very first non-student apartment development of any scale in Cork City in that time period, in an investment put at €40m.

Investors and developers are attracted to a new range of asset classes in property, writes Aoife Brennan.

Cork is on the up with €400m worth of tall building developments proposed for the city in the next few years, writes Kevin O’Neill

Cork City council have issued a tidal flood alert due to a period of very high astronomical Spring Tides.

A local authority's decision to grant planning for a controversial €6m road upgrade into Cork's sprawling south docklands is facing a legal challenge.

IDA Ireland is experiencing its highest ever level of employment in client companies with all regions experiencing growth.

What you see is what you’ll get - that was the pledge from the Office of Public Works (OPW) to the people of Cork yesterday as public reaction to its latest Lower Lee flood defence designs continued.

A controversial €6m road upgrade to help open Cork’s sprawling south docklands for more development has been given the green light despite claims the planning process was flawed.

The developers of the Prism Building in Cork say they expect to be on-site at the development before the end of the year.

Cork City’s 17-storey Elysian apartment building may be about to get a neighbouring tower, with planning permission set to be lodged this week for an apartment development of 118 units 200m away.

Fast track planning permission is being sought this week for a 17-storey apartment tower, on Cork city’s South Link Road, on a compact site previously a rail track goods yard and sidings.

Plans for more than 1,300 homes have been lodged with An Bord Pleanála.

Renewing the Help-to-Buy scheme is "vital" to ensuring future growth in the housing market in Cork, according to estate agents Lisney.

Developers BAM intends to deal quickly with a request for an environmental report on the stalled Cork event centre fuelling fading hopes that the project is still alive.

Campaigners in Cork are urging a rethink of a proposed roads revamp in the city docklands which, they say, is the start of the city’s flood defence works.

Plans for a 34-storey Cork city centre hotel, which would become Ireland’s tallest tower and twice the height of the 17-storey Elysian building, are finally revealed today by New York-based Irish developers.

20 year development time-frame for 31-acre docks site

The long-held vision for Cork’s docklands as a thriving urban waterfront precinct has taken a major step forward after details of a landmark deal emerged.

Cork’s skyline is set to reach new heights with the country’s tallest building planned for the city’s docklands.

A 25-storey apartment tower is proposed for a Cork city centre site on Albert Quay.

Tommy Barker says life can be good and No 10 can get full marks after some gentle tweaks at this terrace off the Old Blackrock Road.

Construction firm BAM expects to save 135 tonnes of carbon over the next five years, following installation of a new energy efficient LED lighting system by eLIght.

CONSTRUCTION work will roll from one block to another at Cork city’s largest ever office scheme, Navigation Square, over the next three years, pledged developer Brian O’Callaghan this week.

For people strolling Lapp’s Quay and Albert Quay in Cork the long boats knifing through the water, crews paddling furiously, are a familiar sight.

Developers JCD have made an off-market multi-million euro swoop on the Cork city Albert Quay site occupied for the past 50 years by family-owned Carey Tools, including the Sextant bar which was subsequently acquired by the Carey family.

Questions over how to fund the proposed events centre in Cork has left the project in limbo and the city still waiting for its first curtain call, writes Eoin English.

Tommy Barker unearths a little gem near Cork’s impressive docklands where development is really picking up pace to meet long-held expectations.

A Cork City office building is up for sale with a €16m price tag.

Planning permission is being sought for a slim, 15-storey, €20m triangular-shaped office tower in the heart of Cork City inspired by the legendary 22-storey 1902 Flatiron building in New York.

Cork City Council has advised that it has upgraded its Severe Weather Alert to level 3 status and it has activated its Crisis Management Team.

The country is facing total shutdown from 4pm today with people ordered to stay indoors, schools and colleges closed, rail and bus services halted, and motorists warned it would be “suicidal” to take to the roads.

City living convenience? It hardly gets any better than Cork’s Marina Park, at the city end (or, the very start) of the Blackrock Road at its Victoria Road nexus.

Focus on providing an urban framework that injects life to our city centre, writes Peter O’Flynn.

The ‘company’ of Cork is in much better shape that it has been for years, writes Joe Gill.

SINCE No 23 Geraldine Place last sold, back in 2010, the world around this niche Cork city setting has seemingly come back to rights.

Last week I was at an event we hosted for clients in the Cork area which was hosted in the superb Páirc Uí Chaoimh facilities.

A new €10m revamp to Cork city’s railway station is to open to tomorrow providing passenger access to the quays for the first time.

Ireland’s tallest building, the Elysian Tower in Cork city, is expected to fetch more than €100m when it goes on sale in the coming weeks.

Cork’s county councillors have been accused of abusing a provision of the 1991 Local Government Act to stall the extension of the city boundary.

The €45.6m purchase of the John Cleary Developments’ Capitol development in Cork city by a German pension fund “is a major confidence boost for the city” and a positive omen for new development, according to Goodbody investment analyst Colm Lauder.

THE €45.6 million purchase of the John Cleary Developments’ Capitol development in Cork city by a German pension fund “is a major confidence boost for the city” and a positive omen for new development, according to Goodbody investment analyst Colm Lauder.