Cork businesses remain 'hopeful' that the much-delayed event centre will be completed.

The lack of progress on the long-mooted event centre for Cork is impeding the city’s growth and will impact several industries if not started immediately, according to business groups in the region.

Talks are under way to finalise payment of €30m in public funding for the proposed Cork event centre. Tánaiste Simon Coveney confirmed that among the issues to be thrashed out is the repayment mechanism for the €9m loan element of the increased funding injection.

The Tánaiste Simon Coveney has confirmed that the State is to pump a further €10m into the delayed Cork event centre.

The Government has engaged in the “worst piece of modern-day electoral cynicism” in relation to Cork’s proposed event centre, Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin has claimed.

A decision on the extra €10m requested for the stalled Cork events centre is unlikely before Christmas.

Does Cork now need an event centre in the middle of the city when the new Páirc Uí Chaoimh is such an attractive venue, asks Michael Moynihan.

BAM, the developer planning to build an events centre in Cork, is poised to ask the Government for at least another €12m in State funding to deliver the 6,000-seat venue.

A councillor has called on Cork City Council to adopt a more “hardline approach” towards the developers of Cork’s stalled event centre.

The publication of a timetable for the delivery of Cork’s stalled €53m events centre is now being considered in a bid to restore public faith in the project.

The government minister who has pledged to deliver a multimillion-euro events centre for Cork has urged people to be patient amid growing concerns over the apparent lack of progress on the project.