Thousands of new homes and jobs: How Cork will grow to balance Dublin

An ambitious draft development plan for Cork aims to make the city a major economic driver to counterbalance Dublin. File picture: Tom Coakley 

An ambitious draft development plan for Cork aims to make the city a major economic driver to counterbalance Dublin.

Billions of euro in central Government funding will be injected into housing and transport plans for the city, a move which is designed to create thousands of new jobs and homes and transform Cork into an international city of scale.