No monkey business please as Cork City pet shop comes on the market for €650,000

Popular location includes planning permission for three apartments

Eddie O'Flaherty with his wife Teresa, daughter Jennifer and son Adrian and grandchildren Teddy Lake and Daisy O'Flaherty at Ideal pet shop on North Main street, Cork. Picture; Eddie O'Hare

Was the Bimbo in the Window a Himbo? Countless Corkonians made their way to the Ideal Pet Shop over the years to check out the cheeky primate Bimbo, whose monkey business at 29 North Main St made him a crowd puller.

That same shop and a vacant site to the rear is up for sale now for €650,000 as owner Eddie O’Flaherty bows out — retiring from the family business, which his father Edward started in the early 1960s with his wife Noreen.