A former League of Ireland football ground is in line to become an office and commercial development, if a recent application to Cork County Council succeeds.

Cork City Council should decide within weeks on a plan to allow a permitted retail scheme be changed to mainly office use.

Nama has installed receivers to take control of a suite of companies run by a publicity-shy property investor once regarded one of the country’s most ambitious boom-time speculators.

Legal steps were taken yesterday in an effort to prevent a group of protesters from occupying a building in the centre of Cork.

He’s been taking on the establishment for the last 120 days at the Occupy Cork camp, so representing himself in Cork Circuit Court yesterday was no big deal.

THE occupation of an unfinished office building continued in Cork city over the weekend as the possible threat of eviction loomed.