Nights out to hot up as landmark club reopening after €3m revamp

Acrobats, dancers, and trapeze artists… sounds like your regular Irish nightclub, doesn’t it?

Maybe not, but it soon will be as the celebrated Savoy Theatre in Cork — once the nation’s biggest — is to re-open later this month as a state-of-the-art clubbing and live venue. The venture is expected to create 65 jobs, 40 of them permanent positions.

Announcing the re-opening in Cork yesterday, Jason Denham, one of the Savoy’s operators, said: “The nightclub and pub sector is rapidly changing, due to the economic climate. We have learned to adapt to this new landscape very successfully through our work in Dublin club Lost Society and other Dublin venues.