Cork loses key music venue as Kino promoters leave Washington Street building
A file picture of Ed O'Leary and Joe Kelly outside the Kino in Cork in 2019.
Cork's live music scene has been dealt a blow with the announcement that the Kino will no longer operate as a venue. Promoter duo the Good Room – also behind Live at Luke's on the north side of the city - have decided to leave the Washington Street premises due to a combination of Covid pressures and the fact that the building looks set to be redeveloped in the near future.
In July of last year, owner of the building, Philip O’Connor, was granted planning conditional permission to demolish the existing premises, and replace it with a new building to include a ground-floor cinema, with 17-bed student accommodation overhead, as well as a rooftop garden terrace.
