Cork urged to take on the capital

CORK needs to get its act together before it is outpaced by Dublin.

This is the view of Greg Coughlan, chief executive of property development firm Howard Holdings, who said Cork has a potential window of opportunity with the docklands project to attract new investment.

“The debate has started in earnest about moving a substantial part of Dublin Port activity out of the [Dublin] Docklands [to facilitate further development].