Padraig Hoare: How many hotels does Cork really need?

Tower Holdings has recently been granted permission by the local authority to build a 35-storey skyscraper hotel tower on Custom House Quay. 

What a difference a year has made in Cork city centre's hotel real estate market.

The major question at the end of 2019 centred around whether Cork was in danger of having too much of a good thing, with hotel and hostel applications heading to Cork City Council's planning department seemingly every other month.