Confirmation of the financial services firm Clearstream to over 70,000 sq ft, plus an optional extra of 20,000 sq ft more for 600 well-paid financial services jobs at Navigation Square on Cork city’s quays makes it one of the very largest-ever office deals in Cork city.

In the second of a five-day series, Eoin English finds that the jobless figures in the Cork City area have surged to almost triple what they were in 2005.

THE number of salmon caught on one of the finest river beats in the county has decreased alarmingly in the past five years, and the blame is being laid squarely on drift net fishermen.

The Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources, Noel Dempsey today formally launched the South West Regional Authority's nationwide survey of satellite broadband users.

DUBLINERS’ disposable income is 16.8% greater than the national average at €17,042, 34.9% greater than the €11,944 average disposable income of Laois residents, the lowest in the country.