Watch: A look inside Douglas Village Shopping Centre ahead of re-opening

Still from video by Cork City Fire Brigade via their Twitter Account. Douglas Village Shopping Centre fire aftermath showing buckled steel beams

“We had the flood (2012) and the fire (2019) so at that stage, I asked ‘What’s next? A pandemic?’” recalls Michael O’Connor, who never, in his wildest dreams, imagined it happening.

Despite the biblical nature of the calamities that have befallen traders at Douglas Village Shopping Centre in the last decade, they are preparing once again to welcome back shoppers.