Firms behind Cork's Shakey bridge restoration go into examinership

Several critical elements have yet to be completed, including electrical, lighting works, access ramps, hand and parapet railings, painting and landscaping.

The bridge structure was removed, repaired and reinstated but work on the project ground to a halt during the summer before the final elements were finished after issues emerged with the main contractor. File pic: Denis Minihane.

Efforts to reopen Cork’s famous Daly’s bridge are ongoing, city officials have insisted, after two companies in the engineering group overseeing its high-profile restoration went into examinership.

An interim examiner has been appointed to L&M Keating Ltd (LMK), and Kilmihil Rental Store Ltd (KRS), two firms in the Clare-based Keating group, after the firm applied to enter voluntary examinership, blaming Covid-19, Brexit and the current trading environment.