PLANS for a “local retail centre” in Cork’s western suburbs have been shot down after councillors voted unanimously againstrezoning.

PLANNERS in Cork city are poised to recommend a rezoning to facilitate the development of a “local retail centre” featuring a Tesco Express store in the western suburbs.

GARDAÍ and residents in Bishopstown, Co Cork, have objected to the liquor licence being renewed for two bars in the area unless the bars’ owners gave undertakings not to have anything to do with the so-called CIT Christmas Day.

INVESTIGATIONS are under way to discover the source of waste flowing into the Green River in Bishopstown.

ALMOST €700,000 is to be ploughed into major upgrades of a popular Cork city public park.

THE first phase of the €3 million ‘Banks of the Lee’ walkway, first suggested almost 20 years ago, was finally opened to the public yesterday.

BLINK and you’d miss Melbourne Court — it’s tucked in off the Model Farm Road close to the Tennis Village and has mix of townhouses and neat, detached houses.

ARE you to the Manor Born?

A €25 million development of student apartments is aimed at people with a high net worth - and, appropriately, it is being built in the back of the Tennis Village complex in Cork where a €5 million ‘front-of-house’ upgrade is also planned.

MOSSIE LAWLOR mightn’t want it heard, much less printed for posterity, but one of his youthful highlights involved sitting on Mick Galwey’s knee.