Irish Examiner view: The wait goes on for Cork Event Centre

It has been six long years since the sod was turned on the site of the centre. It is time to stop kicking the can down the road and finally deliver it

The site of the 'Cork Event Centre,' formerly Beamish & Crawford brewery on South Main Street, Cork. All work stopped on site during the pandemic in 2020. Picture: Larry Cummins

Micheál Martin’s tenure as Taoiseach was a textbook example of someone being forced to sink or swim once elevated to the top job, as crisis after crisis befell a coalition thrown together to form a working government.

The Fianna Fáil leader proved to be a safe political pair of hands in his ability to deal practically and with surety on a variety of matters, from a pandemic to the unseemly spat between the EU and the UK over the Northern Ireland protocol, but there were various issues still unsorted when he handed over power to Leo Varadkar last Saturday.