Operation Transformation: How Cork City Council is helping to tackle dereliction and vacancy in the city centre

Putting life back in the city.

Anyone interested in building conservation is programmed to look up as well as look around — and Ciara O’Flynn recalls her experience as she walked along streets in Cork City’s historic centre ‘round about the time she was set to take up a role with Cork City Council.

”I remember walking along Barrack Street and Douglas Street and looking up and wondering why there were no lights on in some of the buildings.