Irish ports will need to spend €20m each to provide green power for cruise liners

Currently Belfast, with 180 visits per year, and Cork, with around 100, top the list of cruise liner destinations on the whole island. File picture: David Creedon

Irish ports must invest up to €20m each to provide electricity power points for visiting cruise liner ships by 2030 or be restricted to no more than 25 visits a year.

That’s under new EU regulations designed to reduce carbon emissions from the new breed of massive energy-guzzling liners being built in shipyards.