Catch up on this morning's headlines...

Ireland’s tallest building, the Elysian Tower in Cork city, is expected to fetch more than €100m when it goes on sale in the coming weeks.

Tommy Barker reports on what is a market rarity theses days — a selection of new builds.

The Port of Cork is set to put the city’s historic Custom House on the market in the coming weeks as it advances plans to relocate to Ringaskiddy.

There’s only 100 yards or so between two new-to-market offers with agent Timothy Sullivan, and only €25,000 in their prices difference, but they are utterly different buys and markets.

Aldi’s new flagship store in the landmark Elysian Tower in Cork City may well be the jewel in the discount retailer’s ever-expanding crown but a 40-minute drive away lays the real epicentre of the company’s Irish success.

Aldi are to open at least 10 new stores next year, including six in Munster, which will create upwards of 250 jobs and bring the German discount retailer’s total number of stores close to 125.

Plans to build a windfarm in East Cork using turbines almost double the height of the Elysian Tower have been shot down by An Bord Pleanála on the grounds of a negative visual impact and adverse impact on ecology.

Tommy Barker reports on quay deals for future dock developments.

There’s shades of banishing the remaining ghosts of the much-reviled Anglo Irish Bank at its building foot-prints in both Dublin and Cork cities: the Central Bank has started to convert Anglo’s vaunting vanity HQ project to new State service, while Cork’s former Anglo Irish Bank building is getting a re-brand and letting pitch after a multi-million euro purchase.

A US online custom design and sales firm, Zazzle, is setting up a European HQ on Cork City’s Union Quay, capable of hosting 150-200 employees in an IDA-backed expansion.

GOOD story for Cork, good story for the country, and more cranes on the skyline to come.

The Elysian Tower in Cork in many ways symbolises the rise and fall of the Celtic Tiger and now, potentially, the developers behind the landmark project.

APARTMENTS built by Howard Holdings are being offered for sale for receivers KPMG, in two lots, in Cork City centre, and in outer suburban Rochestown.

The revised planning application for a major quayside office development in Cork city has prompted a critical response from the management of the adjoining Elysian complex.

The withdrawn plans for a major new office complex on Cork’s Albert Quay have been replaced with a new application from joint developers BAM Property Ltd & Progressive Commercial Construction Ltd.

Size: 264 (2,850 sq ft)

Size: Sq m 71 (770 sq ft)

East Cork will be home to the tallest on-shore wind turbines in the country, visible from parts of Cork City, if permission to build is granted, according to locals opposed to the project.

A property firm controlled by the Cork developer, Michael O’Flynn, last year incurred losses of £99.69m (€122m).

Wind turbines that dwarf the Elysian Tower and are higher than the Dublin Spire are planned for East Cork.

Bruff-based firm KBO is one of a small number of companies licensed to provide high-speed satellite broadband in Ireland. Now achieving a turnover of €4m, the company looks set to grow this to €10m by 2017, writes Trish Dromey

A Fine Gael city councillor in Cork has told Cork's Evening Echo the occupation of a vacant building in the city as an “attention seeking stunt” by protestors behaving like Robin Hood.

SIXTY-ONE year-old Maurice McCarthy grew up loving the hooting and chug-chugging of engines as they neared the west Cork town of Clonakilty.

ELEVATION: the Hewsons are famous for it, be it the name of a U2 tour or the top of a tower – where Ali wound up at the weekend in a fundraiser for the Chernobyl Children’s Project International (CCPI).

GARDAÍ are going to push Bono’s wife over the edge!

HOVERING above the trees on Cork’s Maryborough Hill is the just-launching apartment scheme Elden — including five upmarket penthouses looking down on centuries’ old woodland and the Lee estuary.

A TOY tower was constructed from 11,000 toy bricks in the shadow of the country’s tallest building in Cork yesterday.

LITTLE children with big hearts will build the tallest toy tower in Ireland in the shadow of the country’s tallest building to raise money for the lifeboats.

A YOUNG father has slated the planning process after Bórd Pleanala over-ruled one of its senior inspectors and rejected a simple house extension.

MUNSTER rugby fans are renowned for going to great lengths to support their team, — but now they’re going to great heights too — 72m to be exact.

CORK’S city manager has defended the policy of taking money from developers in lieu of affordable homes.

SANTA Claus will enjoy a safe flight over Cork this Christmas thanks to two high-flying electricians who lit up the city’s tallest cranes to ensure he can safely deliver his presents.

STREAKING up through Cork skyline towards its €1 million penthouses at five metres a day, the Elysian Tower is making rapid strides in its race to be Ireland’s tallest building.