Hidden Treasures at Cork's newest home interiors hub

Carol O’Callaghan seeks out a new home interiors hub in a surprising location on Cork’s Marina Walk.

For a few short years, Cork’s MacCurtain Street was the city centre’s home interiors hub, with boutiques selling sophisticated paint brands, luxury fabrics and European and Irish designed accessories.

Florists made sculptural bouquets and antique dealers and clockmakers thrived, but now only the clockmaker remains after the economic slump swept some out of the city — and others out of business altogether.