Outdoor canopies to stay in Kinsale for winter despite pleas to remove them for parking

Alfresco dining at Pearce Street, Kinsale, in good weather after the pandemic. But opinions are divided about what happens in the run-up to Christmas. Picture: Denis Boyle

Outdoor canopies/covers will not be removed in the country's gourmet capital for the winter, despite a plea that the spaces they take up be used again for parking in the run-up to Christmas.

The request for their removal in Kinsale, Co Cork, caused a rift between two-party colleagues when one proposed the move at a meeting of the Bandon/Kinsale municipal district council.