One of the closest, purpose-built student accommodation blocks to Cork Institute of Technology in the western suburbs has been put up for sale, guiding at €1.2 million.

A warehouse building with other potential higher-end uses in Cork city’s western suburbs, close to third-level college CIT, has had a price slash, so that now it can be bought for one third the cost of comparable construction.

Sq m: 115(1,240 Sq ft)

Sq m: 255 (2,750 sq ft)

Sq m:90 (970 sq ft)

Five men are each facing five months in jail and six-year driving bans after being convicted of dangerous driving during a sulky race on the main Cork to Limerick road.

Five of the six men charged in connection with a sulky race on the main Cork to Limerick road which became a YouTube sensation have indicated they were pleading not guilty to all charges against them.

A CORKMAN has been remanded on bail after being charged with the assault of a man who remains critically ill in hospital.

ALSO reduced, with a change of selling agent, is the detached, three-bed bungalow The Haven, close to Cork city’s CIT college on Rossa Avenue.

A 15-YEAR-OLD Limerick youth travelled to the home of a man who had earlier been involved in a pub row with his father and threatened him with a gun, it has emerged.

IT’S not often these big, Bishopstown houses come up for sale and considering the depressed market at the moment, now could be the time to make that trade-up decision.

GARDAÍ have appealed for help in tracking sword-wielding thieves who terrorised shop staff in Cork over the weekend.

TWO different options are up for the plucking at The Orchard, off Rossa Avenue in Cork's Bishopstown with only €100,000 in the price difference.