Work begins on €15m-€20m sports and ecology park in Cork marina

Demolition work gets under way today to pave the way for a vast new riverside public sports, adventure, and ecology park, which will wrap around Cork’s regenerated flagship GAA stadium.

Just weeks before the revamped Páirc Uí Chaoimh hosts its first game, hoarding will go up around the adjoining former Munster Showgrounds site before eight to 10 weeks of site clearance works starts on phase one of Cork City Council’s €15m-€20m Marina Park development.

The council has been planning for several years to develop a huge public park extending from Monahan Rd and Centre Park Rd west of the stadium all the way east to Blackrock harbour, which is itself undergoing a massive regeneration, due to be finished next month.