A restaurant-building investment, in the belly of Cork City’s food district, the Huguenot Quarter, is for sale, with three tenants in all, including a long-established eatery, the Strasbourg Goose.

Cork City is due to get a significant new, branded Italian restaurant and deli — a Carluccio’s.

A further €1m-plus Cork city bar and nightclub sale has just concluded, with the Bowery on Tuckey Street selling off-market: it comes just as Wetherspoons are poised to reopen a premises now standing them a total investment of as much as €3.5m, a bar investment level seemingly back to boom time values.

The investment arm of the Davy Group has made a further retail swoop on Cork city’s Patrick Street, having bought the Moderne last year for circa €4-5 million in an off-market deal.

Appeals have been lodged in relation to planning approval for a major mixed development at the ESB headquarters near Dublin City centre.

The change of use of the former Marymount Hospice building at St Patrick’s Hospital on Cork’s northside, to a third-level college, is not exempt from planning requirements, An Bord Pleanála has decided.

The founding premises of homewares specialist store, Meadows & Byrne, in Cork City’s Academy Street will only be vacated and leased to restaurant chain, Nando’s, if planning is secured for change-of-use.

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.

The pedestrianised French Church Street in the heart of Cork city's busy shopping district has reopened after last night's falling masonry incident.

Falling masonry has forced the closure of a busy pedestrianised street in Cork city centre.

A recovery in trade in one of Cork’s city centre’s under-performing streets — Academy Street — is heralded with the opening this weekend of a new restaurant, CoqBull, which replaces hospitality supremo Jay Bourke’s long-established Cafe Bar Deli.

A turnaround in the fortunes and occupancy levels of Cork city’s premier retail boulevard Patrick Street is predicted in the next year, with significant national international brand names set to arrive and take significant floor space.

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TOMORROW is the tender date for the sale of Cork City’s Victoria Hotel on St Patrick’s Street and Cook Street, with well over a half dozen parties expected to make offers on the historic 33-bed city hotel.

Strasbourg Goose,

You couldn’t blame me for pining for Pana on Monday night.

In part two of our series on the social life of young adults, we visit three more cities. In Cork, the girls are refused entry to a nightclub; they are too young. In London, students joke about how much they drink, while in Toronto, two fake IDs can be bought very easily for just $50

PLUMBER.

AN increase in savage biting attacks in Cork city and county has left victims with whole ears, lips and even cheeks ripped off.

A TOP fashion boutique has become the latest victim of the recession.

PLANS to restore Cork’s historic Huguenot cemetery were finally rubber-stamped last night.

SOME of the world’s leading historians have backed a campaign against controversial plans to build on one of only two historic Huguenot cemeteries left in Europe.

CAMPAIGNERS vowed last night to fight controversial plans to build on one of only two historic Huguenot cemeteries left in Europe.

IRELAND’S Huguenots will be commemorated in Cork on Sunday - in the first service of its kind in over 200 years.

A supermarket in Portarlington, Co Laois was prosecuted today for failing to display prices on a number of grocery products.