The reimaging of Cork's South Docks that's a quarter-century in the making

Plans for the overhaul of the city's docklands were first mooted back in 1995

A frontal view of the re-purposed Odlums building on Kennedy Quay. Embargoed to Nov 24.

WHAT a difference a quarter of a century makes.

In 1995, Cork’s ‘new city’ docks and quays development were first mooted for a remote-seeming 17-acre site downriver of the city centre at Horgan’s Quay.