Taxpayers face €177k bill for 'bespoke' works on Cork Garda station

Remedial work at Ballincollig Garda Station will require the closure of the station’s public office for most of November

Ballincollig Garda Station has had scaffolding in place for more than two years after a pane of glass in the atrium fell into the public office. Picture: Denis Minihane

It's going to cost the taxpayer some €177,000 to repair a Garda station’s bespoke glass atrium, where €40,000 has already been spent on support scaffolding since 2019.

The repair bill for Ballincollig Garda Station in Cork emerged on foot of queries to the Office of Public Works (OPW) following confirmation that remediation work has finally begun this week, more than two years since the damage occurred.