Latest addition to Cork city centre is simply Capitol

AS THE very last section of shiny, white Techcrete cladding panels swung into place this week on Cork City’s rapidly-emerging €50m Capitol retail and office complex, a pedestrian passerby on Grand Parade observed “ah, the last piece of the jigsaw”.

“It’s a beautiful building, and it’s big improvement. It shows up all the rest on the street, they should knock them too” volunteered pensioner Tom Twohig, from the Commons Rd....who also suggested the word ‘English’ should be dropped from the right-next door English Market, the city’s beating heart and epicurean-fed stomach.