Project aims to breathe life into historic city streets

A scheme to lure business people to redevelop historic city streets has been extended to Cork, Galway, Kilkenny, and Dublin.

Last year the idea was piloted in Limerick and Waterford offering reliefs to regenerate Georgian streets that had been left dilapidated. The expanded scheme will cover all properties built before 1915 and, according to Finance minister Michael Noonan, it will help to breathe new life into commercial districts.

The plan envisages that refurbished properties will allow families to move into the city centres.