Cork centre may be overtaken by events

The withdrawal of a challenge to State funding for the Cork events centre clears the path for the project to proceed — but utterly changed circumstances mean it’s not going to be that simple, writes Kevin O’Neill

An artist’s impression of the proposed conference and events centre at the heart of the €150m Brewery Quarter regeneration project on the former Beamish and Crawford site

The withdrawal this week of a legal challenge against the €50m State funding package to help build the Cork event centre should remove the final hurdle in the way of the long-stalled project.

The latest step in the complicated development process has come at a time of economic uncertainty.