Docks ideal venue for a global financial hub

Most weeks I turn on to Ship Street on approach to Cork and wonder what on earth is going on with the docks in the city.

Here we have a beautiful river frontage with ample space to develop something special close to the city centre and yet it is effectively empty. I have an idea. Why not make the Cork Docks a global hub for food science and finance?

We already have strong third-level resources around the city and especially in University College Cork. If you review the annual reports of leading Irish agri-food companies you will find a large number of very senior executives were educated through Cork. There is already a natural diaspora of high-level business executives across the global food and drink sector that could be tapped to support this initiative.