Lower service charges could help save Cork jobs

FREE parking on Saturday mornings, coupled with reduced rates and service charges, could help save jobs in struggling Cork city centre retail businesses.

Cork Business Association chief executive Donal Healy cited one Patrick Street retailer as paying €800,000 in annual rates and service charges to Cork City Council.

He was joined by Cork Chamber, IBEC Cork and the Vintners Federation in calling on local and national authorities to ease the pressures being placed on Cork businesses.