Cork fire: Buildings must be utilised, not left to decay

There was great potential in the iconic St Kevin’s asylum, writes Kieran McCarthy.

Like everyone else on Cork’s Lee Fields on Tuesday, I watched with great sadness the burning of the old St Kevin’s asylum and had that deep sense of shock and loss — not just at one level but across a number of levels.

St Kevin’s had a harrowing past but its future should not have played out this way.