IT solutions company Compunet has agreed a €300,000 deal to deliver IT infrastructure at the new Cork facility of ILC Dover, the US special engineering and manufacturing company.

A new manufacturing facility in Cork has created 70 new jobs, with 30 of these roles already filled in recent months.

The site of one of Europe’s once-great Roman/Turkish baths and hydrotherapy complexes, the Hydro in Tower, Blarney — near the world-renowned Blarney Castle which attracts nearly 500,000 visitors a year — has been earmarked for a €35m nursing home and associated house development.

Motor dealers Johnson & Perrott are poised to invest €15m in a new, third dealership location for their Cork City-based business.

A 50-acre tract of land is being sold for development at Cork’s Blarney Business Park, six miles from Cork city centre, on the N20 Mallow-Limerick road. It’s priced at €2.75m, or circa €55,000 an acre.

Bigger than a wedding marquee - that’s the proposed new national Bridal Centre.

Planners insist “now is the time” to rubberstamp blue-prints for a new town on the outskirts of Cork City, warning the project founder they may “miss the boat” if the project is left until the economy improves.

ZONED development landbanks assembled by the Fleming Group over the past decade is coming up for sale in Blarney, Mallow and Clonakilty — and some may sell for little over farm value, and quite possibly to previous farmer owners of the lands.

CORK county engineer Noel O’Keeffe is to lead a delegation to Dublin in an attempt to get the €800 million Cork-Limerick motorway back on track.

LAND seized from Irish developers and now the subject of enforcement order via receivers and liquidators has been marketed by NAMA — and much of it will revert to farmland values when sold.

OBJECTORS have until close of business on Monday to lodge submissions with An Bord Pleanála in relation to the construction of a €600 million motorway linking Cork and Limerick.

ONE of the country’s biggest motor dealerships has collapsed with the loss of up to 30 jobs.

GARDAÍ are searching for a gang that stole thousands of euro worth of designer clothes and tableware from a warehouse in Co Cork.

CORK County Council has issued a warning letter to a wealthy businessman who travels from his home by helicopter about an alleged unauthorised hangar-like building on his land.