The Cork Education and Training Board (ETB) has confirmed it plans to lodge a planning application within weeks for three new schools in Carrigaline as part of a €19m investment in a new education campus.

It appears that a deal has been done in regard to land at St Joseph’s Road, Mallow — where 180 acres has been bought back by two farmers who sold the land to farmer-turned-developer, John Barry, in the first place.

The largest land deal in Co Cork in 2004 was the acquisition of 180 acres, close to Mallow town, by developer John Barry, of Castlelands Construction, when he paid a record €40m for level tillage ground off St Joseph’s Road.

MANY seek it, most don’t have it, but Caolan Mulrooney had the X-factor.

THE college student whose body was found in Cork on Tuesday, five days after he went missing, will be buried tomorrow.

THE announcement that a new all-Irish, second-level school is to open in Carrigaline, Co Cork, in 2014 has been welcomed by county councillors.

SHE was looking forward to her first teenage disco this weekend, had just got tickets to see Rihanna in concert next year and was being tipped to play international ladies’ soccer for Ireland.

A MAN working under a car which was scheduled for an NCT was crushed to death when it fell on him.

THE 2009 Augusta Masters might be recently over, and scooped by Angel Cabrera, but there’s a chance now for more ordinary souls to make the cut at Cork’s Augusta link – thanks to a decline in prices.

WORLD-RENOWNED golf course architect Robert Trent Jones has been appointed architect to the two courses planned by Douglas Golf Club for their new site at Ballinrea, Co Cork.

A MALLOW construction company is set to develop €1.5 billion worth of property in London’s Docklands.

THE Health and Safety Authority (HSA) launched a full investigation last night after barrels of highly corrosive sulphuric acid fell off a lorry near the hub of Ireland’s chemical industry.