Chewing gum causes €30,000 sticking point

THE stains on St Patrick’s Street are wicked. It’s going to cost €30,000 to fix it.

The local authority is facing that hefty clean-up bill to remove hundreds of chewing gum stains from Cork’s main street.

The recently revamped St Patrick’s Street, designed by Catalan architect Beth Gali at a cost of €13 million, was named Ireland’s best shopping street in a Department of the Environment awards scheme shortly after it opened last year.