Traders in Cork should be given “a little taster” of the St Patrick’s Street afternoon car ban over the coming weeks to encourage them to embrace change.

Under-fire Cork city officials are facing a formal call to suspend the controversial afternoon car ban on St Patrick’s St.

The historic Victoria Hotel on Cork city’s St Patrick’s Street has been sold, 18 month after it went to market for sale by tender.

Private cars could be banned from Cork City’s main street by the middle of next year under radical traffic plans due to be published tomorrow.