House of memories to bounce back?

It’s the end of an era as former Dunlop social club Drumcora House is sold on, says Tommy Barker

THE last big change Drumcora House saw was the full-blown recession and jobs depression that came when one of Cork’s biggest employers, the Dunlop Rubber Company, closed its Cork factory.

It shut its plant after 50 years of production, having profitably employed thousands of Corkonians; now that was real recession, none of your namby pamby economic downturn that currently has the country in a spin.