Michael Moynihan: Yes, the values of your city may go down. Just ask the people of Cork

We ordinary citizens can't change our minds if our bets go badly. Yet a company that demolished buildings to build apartments can now say its plan was unviable and will build offices instead

The Cork Docklands to City Centre Road Network Improvements Scheme imagined people living as well as working and playing in the Albert Quay area. But a developer that won approval to build apartments there will instead develop more offices. 

A TENSE exchange the other morning as I was getting my All Cash (Gold) scratch card in the newsagents up the road.

To be precise, a tense exchange just after I bought the card.