Hotel plan for Cork's South Mall could be a banker

A NEW, multi-million euro boutique hotel is planned by one of the country’s most accomplished hospitality developer/managers, for Cork city’s South Mall, taking in a historic bank building which has lain idle since 2012, after Danske Bank/NIB closed its 27 Irish bank branches.

Planning permission is being sought for a 58-bed hotel at and behind 71 South Mall, the former National Irish Bank (NIB) branch with its classical, Cork limestone facade, with the development site running down the side of Morgan Street, which faces the side of the 202-year old Imperial Hotel, which commands the midsection of the rejuvenating South Mall.