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The Big Movers

A Dublin office building has sold for €242 million in Ireland’s largest office investment

One Spencer Dock has been sold to AGC Equity Partners Limited for €242 million, making it the largest office investment in Ireland.

Apple’s massive new Galway data centre has been approved 

An Bord Pleanála has approved the plans for a new €850 million data centre near Athenry, Co Galway. The data centre is one of the company’s first sites outside the US.

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• Irish builders are able to command salaries of around €1000,000, according to a survey by recruitment firm Hays.
• The Union of Students of Ireland has sent out 100,000 flyers to homes across Ireland encouraging people to avail of the rent-a-room scheme and rent out their spare room to students.
• Mick Wallace and Clare Daly have launched namaleaks.com to allow people who feel ‘unfairly treated or [have] witnessed poor practice by Nama’ to securely and anonymously report that.

Des Res

Want to take a peek inside a $455 million home (approximately €403 million), the most expensive property in the world?

It’s in Cannes, France and is known as the Palais Bulles, or Bubble Palace and belongs to fashion designer Pierre Cardin. It was designed by Antti Lovag between 1975 and 1989 .

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