Lord Mayor withdraws comments over Cork event centre

The Lord Mayor of Cork has withdrawn controversial comments he made about the development of Cork’s stalled event centre.

Des Cahill accepted last night that his comments earlier in the week, suggesting that the wrong site and developer had been chosen for the €53m facility, were “inappropriate”.

BAM Construction, which plans to build a 6,000-seat events centre on the former Beamish and Crawford brewery site in Cork City as part of its Brewery Quarter project, secured a €20m public funding package for the facility more than two years ago after winning a protracted and competitive tender process over rival developers, O’Callaghan Properties.