Planning permission has been granted to Cork property developer Owen O’Callaghan for a major 6,000 capacity concert venue to be located on the city's quays.

WAS 2005 the year when the craziness went truly mad? Or made? Walford, a Dublin Shrewsbury Road house, sold in summer for a mind-blowing €58 million, on 1.8 acres, and may or may not have development potential.