Speakers outline vision for Cork
Closer support from businesses for the local-authority-led development plan for Cork up to 2020, CASP, was necessary to drive the city on, declared John Bowen, chairman and chief executive of the Bowen Group. He was speaking at the Moving Cork Along seminar.
He argued that the success of Cork “is of national as well as local importance”. A counter-weight to the pull of the Dublin region was needed, and while other cities too aspired to second city status “Cork could be an alternative reference point to Dublin for Limerick, Waterford and even Galway.” The Cabinet had supported strategic investments in Dublin and Cork too needed a major national project to kick-start further growth, he said.
