New era for Ireland’s oldest city: Investment can unlock the potential of Waterford

Public and private investment can unlock the potential of Waterford city and county, writes Christy Parker

The planned demolition, shortly, of an imposing but abandoned century-old grain store on a Waterford quay closes a chapter on the city’s once-treasured industrial and maritime heritage.

Despite certain objections and its listing as a preserved structure, with its steel-reinforced concrete construction style being unique in 1905, the Hennebique building is now a blot on the landscape and has no place in an Ireland of the future.