Ambitious development plan unveiled for Cork City

The draft Cork City Development Plan 2022-2028  was launched on Monday in Fitzgerald Park, Cork, and is going out to public consultation for eight weeks. At the launch were young rappers and hip hop enthusiasts from the Kabin Studio in Hollyhill, Cork City and the Migrant Centre at Nano Nagle Place, Douglas Street, Sophie Mc Carthy, Cara Cullen, Darren Stewart aka MC Tiny, Rayaa Onog, Jamie Forde aka MC The King, Fionnuala O'Connell, Amaka and Ugonna Duru. Picture: Alison Miles/OSM Photo

An ambitious development plan to make Cork a counterbalance to Dublin will see a €1.8bn central Government investment in the city.

Some 20,000 new homes are to be built in Cork City and its suburbs, along with 31,000 new jobs over the coming years.