Rival discounters set to face-off after €2m Clonakilty site sale

West Cork town Clonakilty may have an Aldi store next year across the road from a recently opened Lidl, following a reported €2m sale of the high-profile Waterfront site yesterday.

The seven-acre site on the bay, by the top tourist town’s busy bypass road, has just been bought by Lyonshall, a company associated with solicitor and developer Kieran Coughlan.

It includes three recently developed award-winning buildings, apartments, a plaza, and a feature ‘whale-tail’ sculpture.