Páirc Uí Chaoimh rises as event centre's future is up in the air

Does Cork now need an event centre in the middle of the city when the new Páirc Uí Chaoimh is such an attractive venue, asks Michael Moynihan.

Last week yours truly opened his Irish Examiner to find Eoin English of this parish, as ever, had his finger on the pulse.

Eoin quoted Cork business consultant Alf Smiddy’s views on the proposed event centre on Leeside: “I think this controversy is going to drag on and drag on, and that the time has come to bite the bullet and start with a clean slate . . . I do think the whole event centre project has spiralled out of control.”