Group set up to study feasibility of reinstating ferry

A high-powered group has been set up to conduct a feasibility study on reinstating a ferry service between Cork and Britain.

Cork County Council, along with the Port of Cork, Fáilte Ireland and representation from the Irish Exporters Association, are to be represented on the group which will start work almost immediately.

The announcement was made yesterday by the Mayor of County Cork Tim Lombard: “The loss of this critical access route is being very sharply felt in the south west of Ireland, the most popular tourism region in the country after Dublin.”