Warehouse/industrial units ranging from €300,000 to €1.5m on Cork City’s outskirts have come to market this month, at Little Island and at the Kinsale Road.

John O’Mahony speaks with Brendan Keary of Keary’s Renault in Cork

A sound warehouse investment at Cork City’s well-established Ballycurreen Industrial Estate, Frankfield, near Musgraves, is for sale as an investment, offering a potential return of 9.6% per annum.

A high-speed escapade of dangerous driving at the height of ‘school-run’ time on a Friday afternoon could have resulted in far more serious consequences, a judge said as he banned a motorist for 10 years and jailed him for two years.

PEOPLE looking for a new car quickly get used to calling to lots of garage forecourts.

JUST sold for year’s end, after 40 inquiries and a competitive tender process for a receiver, is the Kinsale Road Business Park in Cork - by the city’s busiest traffic junction, the Kinsale Road Roundabout, passed by 85,000 cars a day.

The Kinsale Road Business Park which is largely let, has a current rental income of €420,000, representing a c 11.5% net initial yield to investors.

Recent commercial lettings at the Kinsale Road Business Park, near Cork City, bring the park close to full occupancy, according to letting agents Lisney.

THE lights are on, the music is on the radio and the trees are up — there is no getting away from it: Christmas is imminent.

Most of the traders in Douglas had no idea what chaos awaited them until early morning radio bulletins alerted them that the Cork City suburb had been badly flooded.

Gardaí in Cork are reporting major tailbacks following a seven-car pile-up on the city's N28 ring road.

CAR dealer Kearys of Cork saw profits surge in its last financial year by more than €5 million.

BUSINESS leaders in Cork have appealed that rates not increase next year because many have suffered a severe drop in trade due to a the general economic downturn and work on the main drainage project.