Cork City’s skyline set for dramatic transformation

A quarter of Cork’s footprint has yet to be built and the city centre will look dramatically different in 20 years to what it does now.

That is according to Tánaiste Simon Coveney, who was speaking to business leaders in Cork about the €116bn national development plan’s impact on the city and county in the next two decades.

At Cork Chamber’s sold-out ‘Future of Cork’ event at the Clayton Hotel, Mr Coveney said Cork’s population will grow 60% by 2040, with 2m people living in the South.