OVER €100m has been invested off-market, across three low-key retail deals, in the heart of Cork City, at Opera Lane, Merchants Quay/Marks & Spencers Shopping Centre, and St Patrick’s St.

Golden Discs is considering further store openings in the coming months, after returning to profit in its latest financial year.

Cork City’s St Patrick’s Day parade was colourful in more ways than one, with every race represented as hundreds of non-nationals mingled with locals to join the celebration.

A man sat on a bollard during a shopping trip to Cork City only to find it disappear into the ground without warning, throwing him on to his back.

ON returning to Cork after several years’ absence I was horrified at what has been done to the Grand Parade and to St Patrick St.