Oliver Plunkett Street traders still proud of their Great Street Award

One year on – Oliver Plunkett Street traders reflect on their ‘Great Street Award 2016’, writes Marjorie Brennan.

IT often takes an outsider to point out the special nature of something we have taken for granted.

When Cork’s Oliver Plunkett Street was named the best street in Ireland and the UK at the beginning of November last year, it was a recognition of the street’s unique charms, to which shoppers can be impervious as they go about their business.