Uisce Éireann yet to deal with 20-year-old hoarding on Cork quay

“It’s a terrible eyesore when you’re coming into the city, but if they haven’t fixed it in the past 20 years, I would have no confidence they will in the next 20,” Independent city councillor Kieran McCarthy said. 
Hoarding remains in position at Penrose Quay/ Horgan's Quay Cork City 21 years after the completion of the Cork Main Drainage Scheme. Picture: Larry Cummins

Hoarding remains in position at Penrose Quay/ Horgan's Quay Cork City 21 years after the completion of the Cork Main Drainage Scheme. Picture: Larry Cummins

Tue, 29 Sep, 2026 - 20:00
Donal O’Keeffe

Uisce Éireann has refused to say when it will address a two-decades-old eyesore blighting a historic Cork city quay and main approach road, despite saying five years ago it was investigating the issue.

Asked repeatedly over the past month by the Irish Examiner, the State water utility company has declined to say when precisely it intends to resolve a relic of the Cork main drainage scheme which has left ugly hoarding on Penrose Quay since the mid-noughties.

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