Cork gets €50m share of social housing fund

Cork is set to get a €50m slice of social housing funding announced by the Government yesterday.

Some €13m has been set aside to deliver 65 social homes on a publicly-owned landbank in Cork City which has lain vacant since 2007.

The city council said it will advertise its Part 8 plans for the controversial Deanrock site in Togher next month, with construction due to begin in October.