SMALL retail businesses and service providers in Cork can look forward to a markedly more prosperous future as the city progresses through a generation of significant investments.

Campaigners opposed to the Office of Public Work’s €140m flood defence plan for Cork have insisted that a tidal barrier can be built for €135m.

IN the David v Goliath struggle to protect the 5,000-year-old Tara landscape from a section of the M3 tolled motorway, it would seem that Goliath has won, at least for now.

A €1 BILLION dual-carriageway linking the outskirts of Dublin to the south east is expected to get the green light next week, despite more than 100 objections to the route.

A new €40m data centre dedicated to the public sector is set for construction in Co Kildare.

Planning permission has been granted for the first school on a planned education campus at a former Dublin greyhound stadium which was the subject of a controversial €23m purchase by the Department of Education.

Operating losses at the Trump Doonbeg resort reduced sharply to around €100,000 in 2018 as revenues further increased in the "best year" to date for the resort.

Talks are underway in a bid to resolve the standoff over the GAA’s financial contribution towards public lighting upgrades around the revamped Páirc Uí Chaoimh in Cork.