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What's to be done with the old Odlums building on Cork's Kennedy Quay?

The old Odlums building in Cork City: More often than not, one or two people will stop and look up from the coffee or the burrito, and you can almost read their thoughts. Wouldn’t this make a sensational apartment building? Wouldn’t this be the coolest address in Cork? Picture: Gavin Browne

The old Odlums building on Kennedy Quay has a particular name in our house.

My research assistants are inclined to call it “the Matrix house”, based on the five minutes they’ve seen of the Keanu Reeves film.