City manager calls for funding pledge to build bridge

CORK’S city manager has called on the Government to commit funding to build an iconic bridge over the River Lee to help kick-start the city’s multi-billion-euro docklands regeneration project.

Joe Gavin, who has overseen the docklands regeneration plan for the last decade, and who is due to retire as city manager next month, said if the Government is serious about balanced regional development and Cork’s Gateway status, it should signal its intent to help fund the construction of the Eastern Gateway Bridge.

The €80 million swing bridge was one of two bridges, and several major docklands infrastructural roads projects, which received planning permission from An Bord Pleanála last month.