Ripe for the taking

THERE are green shoots of growth — in more ways than one — at the country’s tallest apartment tower, Cork’s Elysian building.

There are 15 sales contracted, out of 25 deposits already secured, with one €1.8 million purchase handed over, while the first new residents have recently moved in, mostly to apartments bought by investors.

But there’s also more movement afoot in the spectacular elevated one-acre Japanese garden and up in the tower itself, where top chef and TV programme host Richard Corrigan has an apartment winter garden and roof gardens set to produce a sample summer salad.