THE demand for quality investments continues, with €33m in an office portfolio sale to three separate buyers in Dublin, and with a private buyer paying over €1.5m for a Cork City retail buy, as a pension investment, with a Tesco Express as its main tenant.

Papal nuncio Archbishop Guiseppe Leanza has been asked to attend a meeting with the Foreign Affairs minister Micheál Martin at Iveagh house next week.

Former Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble is to join the Conservative Party in the House of Lords, it emerged tonight.