Tommy Barker admires a reasonably-priced home in the scheme just across the Douglas River from Rochestown.

An unauthorised car park in Cork’s tech jobs hub will shut down within days after a bizarre planning situation which saw a local authority initiate an enforcement action against itself.

Weighing in at an impressive 4,000 sq ft, this is among the best Rochestown has to offer, writes Tommy Barker.

The doubling of failure rates in higher level Leaving Certificate maths is not a cause for concern, says Education Minister Jan O’Sullivan.

Two waterfront apartment blocks in Cork’s suburban Rochestown, totalling 50 units, are up for sale in one lot, with a guide price of €6.75 million, or an average of €135,000 each. They come to market at time of proven and competitive demand for multi-let investments.

Councillors have blocked zoning changes which would have facilitated further development in the Mahon area of Cork pending major upgrades to the area’s roads network.

Cork’s city councillors have forced through several strategic changes to a major blueprint that will guide development in the busy Mahon suburb for the next 20 years.

A major blueprint to guide the development of one of Cork’s busiest IT and retail hubs up to 2031 is in jeopardy because of a standoff between politicians and planners.

A major draft blueprint to guide the development of one of Cork’s busiest tech and retail hubs over the next 20 years is due to go on public display.

Tommy Barker discovers a sense of airiness within this detached home that is all nicely modern but not flashy.

One of Cork’s busiest tech and retail hubs can take more development despite its chronic traffic problems, a major new report claims.

MAHON peninsula, in Cork harbour, was an unappreciated waterfront asset — until the Lee tunnel came into being, and City Hall sold off large land tracts at this geographic ‘backwater,’ for huge money.

EIGHTEEN acres of shoreline open space is the huge attraction with the Jacob’s Island scheme in Cork’s Mahon Point.

HISTORIAN Kieran McCarthy could be shaping Cork city’s future if he is, as predicted, in the final shake-up for the extra new seat in the city’s largest ward.

BUS ÉIREANN has introduced 25 new low-emission buses on Cork city routes as part of a e6 million investment.

BOUGHT for around €350,000, this two-bed apartment at The Kestrel in Cork’s Jacob’s Island is now on the market at a slashed guide of €200,000.

PLANNERS in Cork have moved to change the city development plan to limit to 10 the number of soaring landmark buildings over 10 storeys in the city.

Tommy Barker says Jacob Island’s homes are a class apart.

IT SEEMS like every Monday morning in the papers we are reading out the death toll from that weekend’s road traffic accidents.

ON the market at €278,000, this two-bed apartment at Jacob’s Island is just a hop skip and a jump from Mahon Point Shopping Centre in Cork.

A FLURRY of re-sales are on offer in the all-new Jacob’s Island development in Mahon, Cork, in the lead up to Christmas.

MORE than 2,000 jobs will be created early next year when phase one of Ireland’s largest mixed use commercial developments outside Dublin opens in Cork.

GATE LODGE is a small estate of four-bedroomed houses, close to the harbour at Blackrock, Cork.

SOME of the biggest ever house schemes in Cork city and suburbs have moved into gear this week, representing thousands of new homes, and, significantly, a good range of supply just east and west of the city.