Irish Examiner view: City should defend precious public space

CGI images of the proposed redevelopment of Pairc Ui Chaoimh, Cork.

Long before Cork’s Páirc Uí Chaoimh was redeveloped and long before the old showgrounds were subsumed by the GAA, concerns were expressed that the stadium should not be redeveloped at that location. 

It is hemmed in by residential neighbourhoods, a river, and treasured public space. Suggestions made then that a new municipal stadium might be developed on the city’s ring road were then dismissed as unrealistic.