IF throwing a stone in water sends out ripples, then a powerful RIB 12-passenger ferry can send out strong waves and positive vibes which may yet wash up on fertile shores for waterside work commuters.

Two of Cork’s best-known sports clubs are trying to ensure it won’t be a “full house” for a proposed bingo hall on the city’s northside.

Plans are to be lodged for a €400m one million sq ft data centre on the outskirts of Ennis early next year.

An East Cork seaside town could be the preferred landfall for a new €930m submarine cable between Ireland and France, which will carry electricity and telecommunications links between the two countries.

Construction of a €10m Tesco outlet in Bantry, Co Cork, is expected to commence in the first quarter of 2013 after An Bord Pleanála gave permission for the 25,000 sq ft facility at the weekend.

PLANNING has just been granted this week for a €15m further investment and extension to the Ballincollig Shopping Centre in Cork, to be anchored by Tesco.

THE final cost of the controversial Corrib Gas project is now expected to near €3 billion, as one of the partners admitted that it may not be until late 2014 when gas is finally flowing.

PLANS have been drawn up to replace the Dunkettle roundabout with signalised dual carriageway and create a new slip road which will allow Dublin-bound traffic to avoid the congested junction at the Jack Lynch Tunnel interchange.

FRANCIE KELLY’S shebeen in Southill has cast planners at Limerick City Council into a legal minefield.