A 50-acre tract of land is being sold for development at Cork’s Blarney Business Park, six miles from Cork city centre, on the N20 Mallow-Limerick road. It’s priced at €2.75m, or circa €55,000 an acre.

A new phase of retail warehousing at Cork city’s Turners Cross kicks off this week, with tenants Homestore+More taking 26,000 sq ft close to the super-sized Woodies outlet, while DID Electrical are due to follow on the same site in another new build for which planning has just been granted.

THE city centre garage site of the former motor dealership, PJ O’Hea’s, which was in business for 87 years, has been put up for sale a decade after its short-lived relocation to East Gate.

A high-wire property development and finance rollercoaster ride continues for O’Flynn Construction.

Nama is expected to make a profit on the sum it paid for developers O’Flynn Construction’s €1.8bn in loans in 2010, according to market sources.

An investor has driven off with a purpose-built, garage showroom on a two-acre site in Cork’s East Gate, for less than €1.5m.

A PAIR of very large, formerly grand Victorian semi-detached houses on 1.4 acres at Cork’s Montenotte are for sale after the company that had planned to develop them for a private secondary school got into difficulties.

A TALENTED young musician with cerebral palsy who communicates using a hi-tech device is set to rock the Áras with a soulful saxophone solo.

A YOUNG man arrested for burgling his neighbour’s house in Ballincollig, Co Cork, on Tuesday evening was refused bail yesterday and remanded in custody for a week.

ONE of the country’s biggest earth-moving firms has agreed a schedule of wage payments to staff — some of whom haven’t been paid for up to three weeks — following the appointment of an interim examiner.

ONE of the biggest commercial sales in Cork city this year has been scooped by developer Michael O’Flynn.

IT could be called CEO Central - this Cork house has been home to the bosses of public and private companies and authorities over the last 30 years.

BUSINESS users take the early train, and astute business looking to future prime locations in Cork will have an eye on the Kent Railway redevelopment and piggy-backing on the massive investment set to flow on the Horgan's Quay site rein.