Cork City Council should decide within days whether to permit a café to be developed on a busy city centre corner.

Investment property activity is continuing through to year’s end in and around Cork city centre streets by the Penneys site, which is expected to go forward for planning permission next month for a major redevelopment, after a two-year site assembly

The historic Victoria Hotel on Cork city’s St Patrick’s Street has been sold, 18 month after it went to market for sale by tender.

Cases arising out of a spate of thefts of full kegs of beer from pubs around Cork City during the summer of 2013 were heard in court yesterday.

As eBay and Done Deal grab a greater share of the second hand market, charity shops are upping their game and reminding customers that donated items are sold for good causes, not just for profit, reports Liz Dunphy.

The investment arm of the Davy Group has made a further retail swoop on Cork city’s Patrick Street, having bought the Moderne last year for circa €4-5 million in an off-market deal.

THE sale at Woodwards in Cork next Wednesday at 6pm is to feature a three-pillar dining table by the O’Connell family of well known Cork furniture makers. It is estimated at €1,000-€2,000.

WITH a pick-up in fortunes at the northern end of Cork City’s retail thoroughfare, Patrick Street, a new sales push and a new agent are behind the vacant corner property at No 125 Patrick Street/Lavitts Quay, by St Patrick’s Bridge.

A MAJOR UK-based retail expo comes to Dublin next month for the first time, as the Irish retail market shows signs of recovery from the economic slump.

An RTE makeover show has given a Cork City restaurant a new lease of life.

IF an army marches on its stomach, and an economy on its retail and restaurant expansion, then things are clearly picking up in Cork - with knives, forks and chopsticks at the ready in the ‘Asian Street Feud’ moves.

IT’S A Dealz, says East Cork estate agent Miah McGrath, holding out the prospect of a 10% return on a Midleton town centre investment, guided at €1.3 million, and with €140,000 a year income stream.

TOMORROW is the tender date for the sale of Cork City’s Victoria Hotel on St Patrick’s Street and Cook Street, with well over a half dozen parties expected to make offers on the historic 33-bed city hotel.

One of Cork city’s oldest hotels, the Victoria Hotel on St Patrick Street, is for sale by tender in April.

FOR the human body, a doctor will assess a patient’s well-being by their general appearance and by checking their blood pressure.

The New Year won’t bring any let-up in the stormy weather in the south of the country as flood alerts have been issued in Cork city and county.

A mass protest calling on Europe to ease Ireland’s debt burden will be family-friendly, organisers have insisted.

Each week, Esther N McCarthy scouts around for interesting bits for your home.

Slick operator the Kerry-based men’s fashion retailer Paraffin has taken a prominent unit on Cork City’s Princes Street via agents Lisney, while Savills have found a Wexford-based ice-cream maker for a unit at the corner of Cook Street and Oliver Plunkett Street.

Interior designer Denise Walsh of Donovan Walsh Design Ltd in Limerick, www.donovanwalshdesign.com, answers your questions on all things vintage. Email: interiors@examiner.ie

ONE of Cork city’s biggest publicly owned multi-storey car parks is to be privatised.

CORK’S city officials have refused to relax the parking and clamping regime on Saturdays.

ROY KEANE’S recent departure from Sunderland led to the usual ham-fisted comparisons with Cork people in general, and the current Cork hurling stand-off in particular.

Three inner city men who got suspended sentences from Judge Tony Hunt for a violent robbery have been brought back before him at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for breaching their 9pm curfew conditions.

IF YOU don’t know your Sober Lane from your Elbow Lane then help is on the way.

Raw sewage flooded the streets today when sewers were unable to cope with heavy rain.

A CAMPAIGN to raise over €4 million to tackle child poverty was launched yesterday.

A top comedian backed a campaign today to raise over four million euro to tackle the serious problem of child poverty.

CORK city’s infamous riverbanks will be the central focus of the largest outdoor event ever to be staged here when the city is officially unveiled as the 2005 European Capital of Culture on Saturday night.

ALL the giant limestone blocks extending onto the road at Morrison’s Island along Fr Mathew Quay in Cork have been tarred over.

A 21-year old man co-accused of beating a man, who later died, into a coma admitted to gardaí that himself and his friend "just beat him to death".

MULTI-MILLION euro pub sales are still on the cards despite the economic downturn.