We can turn our city around but we need to start taking back control

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Crowds watched the demolition of The Sextant Bar, Cork to make way for a 25-storey residential 'build to rent' scheme. The scene on Saturday morning last August after the demolition of 145-year-old bar. The developer has now said it is not economically viable to build apartments on the site. Picture: Larry Cummins

ON a fateful Friday night last August, a 145-year-old pub in Cork City was hastily demolished to make way for luxury apartments.

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