A WELL-SET St Patrick Street Cork city retail investment directly opposite the completed and fully occupied Capitol mixed use development, which is let to Boots Chemists and earning a current annual income of €540,000 is for sale, guiding €5.75 million.

The number of motorists caught parking illegally in Cork city fell by 4.2% last year, although the South Mall remains the country’s top blackspot for catching illegally parked motorists.

A third, institutional fund sale of a retail investment on the western section for Cork city’s main trading thoroughfare, St Patrick’s Street, is new to marekt.

Add a little spring to your indoors with these colourful hanging flower pots, I like the leather cord detail. 

Rose Martin looks at what’s new and what to do in the home this week.

During the downturn, it seemed that every second small retail letting was to a barber’s or a hairdresser’s salon.

Noah’s Ark is a whimsical throw blanket for the little boy or girl in your life, packed with cheerful creatures from the sky, sea and land. 

Cork City Council have announced that Olympic rowing heroes Gary and Paul O’Donovan will switch on the Cork city Christmas lights.

Cork City is due to get a significant new, branded Italian restaurant and deli — a Carluccio’s.

A family from Co. Cork has collected a cheque for €153,240 from National Lottery Headquarters after they matched five numbers plus the bonus number in the Lotto draw on Wednesday, June 1.

There is no doubting the popularity Penneys has with the Irish public, but this price tag found in one of their stores today raises a few eyebrows.

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Welcome back! Has it really been nearly a whole year since that wet and windy day last June?

The €9.5 million sale of Irish Life investment properties in Cork and Limerick includes two Patrick Street Cork units set for increased profile from next year, when the Capitol Cinema retail site is completed, bringing a strong anchor (Zara? H&M?) to this end of Patrick Street.

Kya deLongchamps enjoys the whimsical interior of a period renovation and extension project near Fermoy which displays the flair of jeweller, Simon Barber.

Cork people are looking forward to welcoming visitors from the US next year following the announcement of Cork Airport’s first transatlantic flights to Boston with Norwegian Air. 

Model, author and former Miss World, Rosanna Davison has had to deal with a lot of hateful comments in the aftermath of ‘gluten-gate’ but public backlash to the “outrageous comments” is totally understandable, she said.

GAA fans attending Cork stadium Páirc Uí Rinn have been urged to park responsibly after residents complained of “feeling under siege”.

"The street is devastated, a legend has passed on."

A letting of an office floor to growing research company UTRC in the rebranded and upgraded Penrose Wharf Business Centre puts the building vacated last year by Siemens back onto the market competitively.

IN A case of new wine in old bottles, multi-pub owner Benny McCabe this weekend opens a city wine and food bar in one of Cork’s oldest retail buildings, one that served as a pharmacy for close to a century.

THERE were mixed views on the streets of Cork as new bylaws reducing the speed limit to 30km/h in parts of Cork city centre were implemented yesterday.

A man who broke into the constituency office of former Fianna Fáil Minister Barry Andrews because he was looking for place to drink has been jailed for two years.

COME to Amsterdam, they say.

Marks & Spencer have announced plans to open a second store in Cork and create up to 100 new jobs.

A man who broke into the constituency office of Fianna Fáil TD Barry Andrews because he was looking for place to drink will be sentenced later.

The Lisbon Treaty campaign continues today with party leaders on country-wide constituency visits.

IT HAS been a weekend for everybody.

SIDNEY PARK has its devotees... and why wouldn’t it? It has suburban style, easy-to-live-in houses in an urban setting and schools right on its doorstep.

CORK taxi drivers held crisis talks last night ahead of a crunch meeting with the industry regulator.

APRON strings in Cork are the most elastic of them all.

THE Taoiseach was expecting a triumphant tour of Cork city but instead he was left running for cover from heckling protesters.

AS flood warnings were issued yesterday for Cork city and county, the OPW (Office of Public Works) was criticised for not reacting swiftly enough to the growing prospect of global warming submerging low-lying areas.

BYGONE days were recalled yesterday as dray horses made their first appearance on the streets of Cork for four decades.

A MID-1800s house builder was so taken with his Italian honeymoon that he named the next half dozen or so houses that he went on to build after the lakes and villages that he had visited.

CORK writers and singers will hold a literary walkabout of the city today.

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.

AFTER three years of disruption and a €13 million facelift, Cork’s main street was officially handed back to its citizens yesterday.

The proposed pedestrianisation of Cork’s main thoroughfare, Patrick’s Street, has been scrapped by the City Council, it was revealed today as the street’s €13m revamp was launched, the Evening Echo reports.

I WAS horrified when I saw anti-war posters stuck on every one of the beautiful new street lights on Patrick’s Street in Cork.