It’s a new phase of a business cycle: a surge in cycling activity in Irish cities, fuelled by schemes such as Bike to Work and bike sharing City Bikes with multiple docking stations has prompted a four-year old Cork city cycles business to relocate, and expand.

There’s a big sale coming up in Cork suburban Wilton — try €70m for size — as the shopping centre anchored by Tesco and Penneys gets offered as part of a Nama retail portfolio worth €115m in all.

Auction action is set to gather pace in the coming two months, with agents DNG Creedon in Cork city entering the process with two multi-lot auctions in September and October.

THE UNDERSTATED quality of a home like Westbury would sell it to almost any house hunter looking for a comfortable place to retreat to.

Hundreds of thousands of euro have been invested in cycle lanes and in Cork another €2m has been invested in the Coca Cola bike scheme. But why do potholes still abound, asks Caroline Delaney.

Hot spicy food - by way of a fourth Ramen Asian street food restaurant - is set to ok up next to an Iceland store, in East Cork’s Midleton Distillery Lane’s €30m development.

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.

Five available houses are guided at €550,000, writes Tommy Barker

WE’RE fairly used now to prices being discounted by “xx% since peak” but here’s one that’s down 30% from just two years ago, when the property market was already broadly deflated.

HSE staff working at the Cork Farm Centre in Dennehys Cross have been evacuated from the building after a fire broke out earlier.

Bus Éireann has today outlined alterations to services in Cork during royal visit this Friday, May 20.