NEW linkages and a whopping 2 million passengers per year feeding into and out of CIE’s Kent Station Cork will raise the profile of the transport company’s Horgans’ Quay development site, which gets put back out for tender this week.

IT jumps out of the Price Register as a €52 million sale for its residential element alone - Cork’s Elysian Tower has been a highly-visible barometer in both regional and national terms of hopes in boom times, dashed ambitions in the economic collapse, all the while personifying the ups, downs and now the ups once more.