First views from inside Cork's dockland hotel and office developments

The office block One Horgan’s Quay and the 120-bed Dean Hotel are due for occupation from August of this year.

The overused expression “a vision of the future” usually means something well down the line: in Cork City, a future vision is plain to see, from the top floors of office and hotel buildings advancing in construction on the north quays.

And, it’s already on a line too, a spidery web of rail lines at the end of the city’s mile-long rail tunnel, a 19th-century engineering marvel of its day.