Cork City Council should decide within days whether to permit a café to be developed on a busy city centre corner.

Investment property activity is continuing through to year’s end in and around Cork city centre streets by the Penneys site, which is expected to go forward for planning permission next month for a major redevelopment, after a two-year site assembly

INVESTORS seeking a return close to 13% on their €1m investment should beat a path to Cork’s Marlboro Street and to nos 40/41, home to travel company Trailfinders, which is occupying on a 25-year lease from 2006.

A VISIT a few years ago to a pesto maker in Genoa, where the thick sauce originated, showed the wonders of fresh basil grown especially for it. With a fresh, heady bouquet, it was magnificent. 

When you’re in the travel business you have to get used to people moving about, but Cork city-based travel experts Shandon Travel are still getting a little excited about their switch to a new city centre location.

STREAKY rashers are an excellent standby to rustle up an easy meal and will lift all sorts of dishes.

A DOLLOP of mayo can work wonders for the simplest sandwich. On hot new potatoes it’s a treat, and delicious smeared on barely cooked broccoli.

A youth-led Cork project, nurturing teen talent in a welcoming environment, is a huge success, says Liz Dunphy.

An investment property just off Cork City’s St Patrick’s Street which was owned by investor/developer Joe O’Donovan has a current rent of €135,000, on upward only reviews, and is now for sale, guiding €1.2 million, an 11% yield.

CORK’S business leaders are seeking an urgent meeting with ESB chiefs after the city was hit by its second major power cut in a year.

THEY may be under threat of being banned from World Cup football stadiums but the vuvuzela is here to stay as mobile phone users can keep the sound in their pockets.

A man is fighting for his life tonight after being stabbed in Dublin city centre.

HE hadn’t even started canvassing in Cork city yesterday but it looked as if Enda Kenny’s Yes to Lisbon train could be derailed even before it left the station.

A drug addicted grandmother who was illegally selling sleeping tablets at a drugs treatment clinic has been given a three-year sentence by Judge Katherine Delahunt at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

TRIBUTES have poured in for one of Cork’s most popular business men, Denis MacSweeny, who died yesterday.

CORK-based travel agent Lee Travel is celebrating the receipt of an award as top agent in Ireland for the Royal Caribbean Cruise Company.

CORK city’s infamous riverbanks will be the central focus of the largest outdoor event ever to be staged here when the city is officially unveiled as the 2005 European Capital of Culture on Saturday night.

A five-year jail sentence was imposed today on a man who lay in wait for women using toilets at a bar and a fast food restaurant in Cork.