Cork County Council has granted conditional planning permission for a Lidl supermarket in Douglas that had a previous application rejected by An Bord Pleanála.

An Bord Pleanála has refused planning permission for a proposed Lidl supermarket in the Cork suburb of Douglas, disagreeing with the recommendation of its inspector.

It needs modernisation, can be easily added to but as Tommy Barker suggests it’s got a Cork posh swagger about it, just ‘Ask Audrey’.

Plans for the overhaul and extension of the Metropole Hotel in Cork city centre have been detailed by the company proposing the works.

Trish Dromey on an affordable Cork city three-bed detached home.

IT’S less than a year since the last detached family home in a great Beaumont Drive setting in Cork’s halo-ed and hallowed Blackrock hinterland came to market. 

A former orchard attached to a period home in Cork’s salubrious Ballintemple suburb may be about yield the last of a long-lasting once-bumper crop. The latest apple set to fall from the trees is 1 Ardcairn Mews.

Although Curraheen needs work, it’s a Well Road prospect well worth considering.

The very convenient location is set to be a big attraction at the open viewing day today for this two-bed property, writes Trish Dromey.

Trish Dromey reports on a Victorian vintage cottage in Cork’s Ballintemple. 

Pretty much everything has to be done to this three-bedroomed bungalow – but the location will drive interest, nonetheless.

A hot-in-demand Cork suburban residential building site gets offered for sale for the third time for its owners Eir, the new name for Eircom.

Tommy Barker reports on a recent arrival in an old Cork city suburb.

High stone walls line Churchyard Lane in Cork’s Ballintemple, but the duplex apartments at Templehill House manage to overlook them in any case. 

Cork City Council has given the go-ahead for a major c 200,000 sq ft office development plan at Albert Quay, Cork.

Size: 76 (820 sq ft)

We scan a selection of trading up homes from around the country.

We scan a selection of trading up homes from around the country.

Cork County Council has announced that it will introduce pay parking in several areas of Douglas from May 1.

IF you can believe them, house price surveys and market commentators say price drops are close to bottoming out on older houses, in long-established and popular city residential locations.

A PASSING glance and you’d assume that Cnoc Mhuire is a brand new build, but the Well Road house has been standing for quite a while.

Businessman Owen O'Callaghan is one of a group of individuals and firms that today secured leave from the High Court to challenge the Mahon Tribunal's refusal to furnish them with any draft findings that relate to them contained in the tribunal of inquiry's report.