Business owners seek outdoor dining for Cork's Princes Street

Restaurateurs of the eleven Princes Street restaurants are coming together with other street traders to engage in talks with Cork City Council to possibly set up seating outdoors to comply with social distancing when Covid-19 regulations are relaxed. Included are Claire Nash, Nash 19, Saleatore Toscano and Saleatore Cosentino, Ristorante Rossini, Barry Walsh, Cork Arts Supplies, krzyszpof Zielenski, PC Maestro, Paul Montgomery, Aidan O’Driscoll, Graham Barrett and Michael O’Sullivan, Clancy’s. Picture Dan Linehan

Business owners on a busy street in Cork City have united behind an ‘eat-on-the street’ plan they hope will allow its many restaurants and bars to reopen when Covid-19 restrictions are lifted. The group on Cork’s Princes St have presented a proposal to city officials that would see the street, which links Oliver Plunkett St to the South Mall, closed to vehicular traffic and turned into an outdoor dining area.