Irish Examiner view: €405m funding marks new era of growth for Cork

Urban regeneration of city and docklands will turn lofty aspirations into concrete reality

An Taoiseach Micheál Martin at Cork docklands for the announcement of  significant government investment in Cork City Docklands and the Grand Parade Quarter under Ireland 2040’s Urban Regeneration and Development Fund (URDF).

The allocation of €405m in funding for the regeneration of Cork City and docklands represents the kind of investment needed to turn lofty aspirations into concrete reality.

For decades, city plans have been big on ambition but short on the kind of significant investment needed to transform our urban centres into “better places in which to live, visit, and invest”, as Taoiseach Micheál Martin put it yesterday when he announced a regeneration plan that finally stumps up the kind of money needed to bring about real change.