Hospitality guru is confident Cork Events Centre will go-ahead

Hospitality guru is developing new hotel on Cork's South Mall

Hotelier Ray Byrne is also opening a microsleeper hotel on Cork's MacCurtain Street.

A KEY figure in the hospitality industry with an expanding property portfolio in Cork says he is confident that the long-awaited Events Centre will go ahead.

Dubliner Ray Byrne, who along with his business partner Eoin Doyle, is poised to open Cork city’s first microsleeper in May and who has planning permission for a second hotel on South Mall, told the Irish Examiner his understanding is that the project is set to move to construction stage.