Analysis: Cork should look to tap financial foreign direct investment

Anyone who has been through Dublin in the past couple of months will be keenly aware of the infrastructural squeeze that is taking place as the economy rebounds.

That challenge cannot easily be fixed given the geography of the capital (it sits on a large bay) and the strong growth evident inside the Pale.

If Cork, Limerick, and Galway had the luxury of employing strategists, they would be eyeing up developments in the east as a glaring opportunity to advance the case for these cities to be the focus point of inward investment.