VIDEO: When time stands still - restoring the national monument

Eoin English looks at the skilled conservation work now underway to restore the National Monument on Grand Parade ahead of the Easter Rising commemorations planned for Cork in 2016

A MAJOR conservation and restoration project on a city landmark is set to safeguard it for at least another half-century.

Expert sculpture conservator Eoghan Daltun has begun a crucial phase of the mammoth project to clean and repair Cork’s National Monument, which was unveiled at the turn of the last century.