TWELVE years after the Irish property, construction, and economic crash, work is finally set to start on the very first non-student apartment development of any scale in Cork City in that time period, in an investment put at €40m.

"Crews are currently dealing with an incident in St Patrick’s Street in the City Centre," the Cork City Fire Brigade said this lunchtime.

Commercial property buyers have the chance to place an enticing item in the shopping basket as Cork’s renowned Paul Street Shopping Centre has come on the market.

Gardaí are questioning a man in his 30s after seizing €350,000 worth of heroin in the city centre.

What do you get when you mix red-hot jazz with the fiery characters of Cork, and the unique surge of Guinness?

One man fighting is fighting his life and the first incident which occurred on St Patrick’s St just after 9pm last night.

Residents cheered last night as a controversial public transport plan that would have seen parts of some of their front gardens along one of Cork’s busiest roads sacrificed for bus and bike lanes was shot down.

The Green Party wants to reintroduce towing operations in Cork city in a bid to tackle widespread and persistent illegal parking in bike and bus lanes.

A rare postbox is among intriguing lots, writes Des O’Sullivan.

The planned c €100m roll out of sale and leaseback of retail properties by Irish bookseller Eason continues to gather pace, with the arrival of its Cork flagship store at 113-115 St Patrick’s Street for sale, guiding €6.6 million.

Cork City South Central was previously a small electoral area but it represents a very different proposition after the expansion of the city boundary.

A risorgimento on Leeside can come to the aid of the nation, writes Allan Prosser

Fashion and homeware retailer Laura Ashley is to leave its long-held Cork city centre shop on St Patrick’s Street, after 30 years trading there at the Merchants Quay Shopping Centre: it is moving instead to suburban retail park.

Retailers in Cork City who led opposition to the St Patrick’s Street car ban are ready to move beyond the controversy and embrace change, according to one of the organisers of a meeting tonight on the future of retail.

Only one service in Cork met all its punctuality targets last year.

University College Cork is to open a 4,000-student strong Business School in Cork city centre in what is another huge boost for the region.

The theft of a historic sculpture from St Patrick’s Street has reignited a long-running conversation in Cork City about the handling of historic artefacts.

Gardaí made 90 arrests for begging or shoplifting in Cork City over Christmas, recovering an estimated €20,000 worth of stolen goods.

A passenger who assaulted a taxi driver in a dispute about a fare has been ordered to pay €1,300 for damage to the car to avoid spending five months in jail.

A visitor to Cork City witnessed the man accused of murdering his girlfriend catching her by the throat and shouting at her in Cork City on Saturday afternoon before she was found dead early on Sunday morning in a squat.

Traders in Cork City say they hope a supports package worth at least €300,000 will help deliver the vibrant city everyone wants as the St Patrick’s Street car ban looms again.

Half-price parking deals, an extended park and ride bus service, and new city centre set-down areas are part of a package of measures planned as part of the reintroduction of the controversial afternoon car ban on Cork City’s main street.

Almost €1m has been paid out in compensation on foot of 54 public liability claims within a decade, following incidents on some of Cork City’s most pedestrian-friendly streets.

New options to minimise the loss of Cork city centre parking spaces have been drafted in a bid to secure delivery of a €6m revamp of a historic quay.

Record Store Day was originally set up as a response to the digital onslaught. Ellie O’Byrne visits the five remaining stores in Cork to hear about the ever-changing industry, as well as their plans for tomorrow’s big event.

Traders in Cork City are determined to withhold commercial rates unless a car ban on the main thoroughfare of St Patrick’s Street is scrapped. That threat may be either superfluous, ironic or both.

Cork Business Association members have expressed concern about the proposed reduction of a large number of parking spaces in the city centre and the closure of St Patrick’s Street to traffic.

A young woman had her buttocks prodded with a pencil when she bent over at the beauty counter where she worked and when she looked around she saw the man who did it laughing at her.

A businessman on Cork’s main street has branded the St Patrick’s Street car ban a “recipe for disaster”.

Plans to convert a former hotel in Cork city centre into an upmarket retail store have been put on hold following objections from a number of local businesses and An Taisce.

A Nightline delivery service courier admitted stealing three mobile phones that were being posted to customers.

Local shops are every bit as important as parks, waterways, raised bogs and woodlands, writes Victoria White

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.

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.

Facebook has lodged planning documents to facilitate its use of The Capitol offices development in the centre of Cork city.

Ireland’s larger towns have cleaned up their act but litter is still a major problem in disadvantaged city areas.

A new €10m revamp to Cork city’s railway station is to open to tomorrow providing passenger access to the quays for the first time.

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.

Christmas in Cork has been saved after City Hall secured enough funding to stage the city’s hugely popular Glow festival again this year.

The building that hosts Waterstones bookseller in Cork city centre is for sale for €6.25m, writes Property Editor, Tommy Barker. 

The iconic Roches Stores building, in the centre of Cork City, is up for sale and is expected to make more than €70m for its owners, the Roche family.

WITH plans afoot for the €70m-plus investment property sale of the ‘old’ Roches Stores/Debenhams Cork’s store by the publicity-shy Roche family, the arrival of a neighbouring niche investment with a more modest €1.5m price tag has impeccable timing, and opportunity.

North Main Street may be ailing, but Tony’s Bistro is still cooking up a storm, writes Irene Long.