Former Blacktie outlet on Patrick Street is sold

THE banners are up along Cork city’s St Patrick’s Street for today’s St Patrick’s Day parade — and, selling agents DTZ Sherry FitzGerald have just this week managed to snake in a large ‘Sold’ sign on a high-profile building on this retail thoroughfare which bears the saint’s name.

Just sold is the corner building at 125 Patrick Street, for years the Blacktie dress hire presence in Cork city centre. Before that it was for decades a bar, the Swan and Cygnet.

No 125 is directly opposite Merchants Quay shopping centre, overlooking St Patrick’s Bridge, and up towards St Patrick’s Hill, for the repeat value of the name and day that’s in it.