Firms threaten to block €10m site

Subcontractors owed thousands of euro are threatening to blockade the site of a major new Pepsi development in Cork following the main contractor on the €10m project going into liquidation.

Brian McCarthy Contractors Ltd were the main builders on the project, but last week they ceased trading “due to the unavailability of profitable work”.

A number of sub-contractors have already supplied Brian McCarthy Contractors with building materials and labour worth hundreds of thousands of euro, for which they are now unlikely to receive payment.