Brewery site should be jewel in cultural crown

THE proposed development at the Beamish & Crawford site would seem to be the wrong size, in the wrong place, to be used for the wrong reasons.

It smacks of all that has been wrong in property development in Ireland for the last decade, shoving as much commercial floorspace into as tight a spot as possible. Just the traffic implications should rule it out.

This site should be the centre of a heritage trail running from the Gaol cross to the UCC Quad, the Honan Chapel, Canty’s field, St FinBarres, Elisabeth Fort, Southgate Bridge, Bishop Lucey Park and The English Market.