Nama has installed receivers to take control of a suite of companies run by a publicity-shy property investor once regarded one of the country’s most ambitious boom-time speculators.

A Cork suburban scheme of shops and 142 apartments at Dennehys Cross is part of a €75m investment and distressed assets sell-off, to include 500 Dublin apartments, by Ulster Bank.

WHILE Occupy camps around the globe are being broken up and moved on, the message from the Cork settlement is clear — they are here to stay.

TRADERS launched a blistering attack on city bosses yesterday for plonking two coffee pods in the middle of a sweeping new boulevard.