Taxpayers will have to cough up more funding to deliver elusive Cork event centre project

€57m in state aid has been pledged already

A computer-generated image of BAM's plans for the Cork event centre.

With €57m in state aid already pledged, taxpayers will have to cough up more funding to deliver the elusive Cork event centre project.

It follows confirmation that Cork City Council has finished its assessment of the detailed designs and costings for the venue which were submitted to the local authority last summer by the consortium which won the tender for the initial state-aid package of €20m in 2014.