Let there be light: Cork’s Elysian now fully occupied

A decade after completion, and having weathered the economic crash, Cork’s iconic Elysian tower and its 211 flanking apartments are now fully occupied.

Marking Christmas 2017 as the period in which the 17-storey tower and wings finally came to life on a ‘Gateway’ site next to Cork’s City Hall, 600 Elysian occupiers last night lit up their apartments for a brief, shining period in a gesture of final arrival.

As luck had it, the evening for the Elysian’s dramatic skyline salutation was shrouded in day-long, and into-the-night, fog.