Plan lodged to turn Cork City bookshop into pub with sky-bridge linking to nightclub

The compact, 460-sq metre premises went to the open market with a €350,000 guide price and was acquired by Mutual Enterprises in 2022.

The former Uneeda bookshop at 71 Oliver Plunkett Street Cork was acquired in 2022 by Mutual Enterprises. Picture: Eddie O'Hare

A planning application has been lodged to redevelop the former Uneeda bookshop on Cork's Oliver Plunkett Street into a new bar that will be connected to the nearby BarBarossa and Bróg complex.

Mutual Enterprises is seeking permission from Cork City Council to change the use of the business from bookstore to licensed premises. If approved it would see the ground floor unit converted into a bar with an office and store on the first floor with a sky-bridge structure on the second floor crossing Market Avenue to link into the existing complex that also includes the Voodoo Rooms nightclub.