Department to appoint board for re-tendering of Cork event centre within days

Also, Social Democrats Cllr Padraig Rice, was told that the council has now spent €1.6m on the entire process — up from €1.5m in June 2023 — a spend described as 'outrageous'

The Cork event centre saga, which is being overseen by Cork City Council, has been dogged by price overruns and delays since BAM won the tender in 2014 for some €20m of public funding to help deliver a proposed 6,000-capacity venue on the former Beamish and Crawford site on South Main St. File picture: Larry Cummins

A board will be appointed within days to oversee the re-tendering of the Cork event centre project, and draft terms of reference for its work have already been prepared, city councillors have been told.

The news comes just over two weeks after Cabinet approved the re-tendering of the entire project eight years after its sod was turned, but where a brick has yet to be laid.