Cork event centre developers set to meet councillors

The developers of the Cork events centre are set to brief city councillors amid mounting concerns over the lack of progress on the €50m scheme.

It emerged last night that funding contracts for the stalled 6,000-seat venue have yet to be signed, and that the developers yesterday sought an extension to the scheme’s five-year planning permission window, fuelling fears that construction could be a long way off.

The revelations came as councillors expressed concerns construction still hasn’t started four months after Enda Kenny turned the sod on the project just days before the general election.