Cork: Owners of derelict buildings 'holding regeneration of towns and villages to ransom'

Following on from our dereliction series on Munster counties back in August 2021, Neil Michael revisits some towns in Cork to see if any progress has been made

The former Central Hotel in Mallow, Co Cork, which is due to be demolished. Picture: Dan Linehan

The issue of dereliction in a North Cork town took a macabre twist in January when human remains were discovered in a boarded-up house.

Later identified as Tim O’Sullivan, his skeleton was found under a duvet in a bedroom of the single-story terraced house in Mallow. Two county council staff made the grim discovery after they forced entry into the Beecher Street property to deal with rodent infestation.