Clancys may become aparthotel

APARTHOTEL use is mooted for a Cork bar and entertainment complex, just put up for sale and with almost 200 years of trading history in the heart of the city centre.

The long-established Clancys bar stretches to over 12,000 sq ft and has frontage to two city streets, Princes Street and Marlboro Street, in the section between the South Mall, and Oliver Plunkett Street: it’s for sale at a guide of €2.25 million, via Behan Irwin Gosling, with Barry Auctioneers.

It ceased trading a year ago, having been leased out to operators by owner Colin Ross, who had bought it in 1998, for the equivalent of €3m.