Despite having a world of financial worries on their shoulders, SMEs across the country have shown their willingness to help each other in any way they can during the Covid-19 crisis.

The Cork Mail Centre closed in the early hours of tomorrow morning as the last shift finished at the Little Island facility.

A businessman with a warehouse full of fruit and veg is giving it away wholesale before it rots as businesses in Cork City promise they’ll be ‘back soon’.

"In Spain, we would have been clocking up to 180kms a week. I’ll just do that mileage here in Cork now."

An Post is considering the closure of some of its suburban delivery offices in Cork as part of a major reconfiguration of operations which includes the closure of its large mails centre in Little Island within weeks.

Last June, the phased closure of the Cork Mail Centre in Little Island was announced, with the decision affecting 240 people.

The Office of Public Works has released new images of its proposed flood defences for Cork.

A new private bus service approved by the National Transport Authority (NTA) is set to get underway in Cork at the end of next month and will connect the northside of the city at Apple Computers with Kent Station and the commercial and industrial hubs in Little Island.

A coalition of business leaders, hoteliers, publicans and restaurateurs in Cork say their focus remains on doing everything possible to ensure the delivery of the Cork event centre as it faces yet about obstacle.

“We have not seen any fall-off in recruitment in these sectors”

The country’s largest wholesale food supplier, Pallas Foods, which has an annual turnover in excess of €350m, has closed out a deal on a 83,000sq ft logistics building in Cork’s Courtstown.

Investment worth a further €10m is set to flow into Cork’s Blarney Business Park, in a significant speculative drive forward by the park’s new owners, JCD Group.

Cork is two years into a 10-year Bus Connects plan without a kilometre of additional bus lane or a planning application for a single park and ride.

It is all eyes on Fianna Fáil in Cork North-Central where the party is scrambling to continue its presence in the wake of Billy Kelleher’s departure to Europe.

Seán O’Sullivan owns Badly Made Books, a stationery, design and printing shop/workshop at 1, Friar Street, Cork.

Key positives included access to talent, quality third level education and the pro-business policies of successive governments.

Relentless innovation can future-fit Cork’s strong biopharma hub, writes Bernard Mallee

Workers at the largest Pfizer plant in Ireland look to be on a collision course with company management after they rejected recommendations from the WRC on the proposed winding up of their Direct Benefit (DB) pension scheme.

The gardens at Highland Cottage in Glounthaune are looking a bit bare at this time of year but come spring, a new owner will get a chance to enjoy them in full colour.

It's quite possible that this four-bed detached house at 2 Bramble Close, Castlelake, in Carrigtwohill could sell to a trade-up buyer already living in the estate.

Hopes by senior Pfizer management that Irish staff would agree to a phasing out of their Direct Benefit (DB) pension scheme have been dashed after members of Siptu in the Ringaskiddy plant voted overwhelmingly to reject the proposal.

Cycling campaigners in Cork say the city has gone from a leader to a "laggard" in the provision of cycling infrastructure.