Damaged Cork street lights blamed on delivery drivers

CARELESS delivery drivers have been blamed for the extensive damage being caused to a groundbreaking €422,000 lighting scheme on one of Cork’s busiest shopping streets.

At the moment, just a handful of Oliver Plunkett Street’s 123 multicoloured illuminated bollards are in working order.

Installed as part of the street’s €3.8 million Beth Gali-designed revamp that began in 2004, the lighting scheme represented the first time such a system was used in a public infrastructure project.