The protest highlighted the condition of buildings on Cork's North Main Street , which were declared derelict in 2015, suffered a partial collapse in 2019, and were acquired by Cork City Council via a compulsory purchase order (O) in 2022.

The scheme is aimed at encouraging investment into the character and appearance of historic areas of the city, as part of a wider regeneration programme.

The local authority is now seeking the public’s views on the works proposed for Cattle Market Avenue, Glen Ryan Rd, St Theresa’s Rd, and Mary Aikenhead Place.

Cork Kerry Community Healthcare (CKCH) is reminding all those aged 65 years and over that they can still avail of their second COVID-19 booster vaccine, through vaccination centres in Bantry and on North Main Street.

Cork City Council is in the advanced stages of securing four properties on North Main Street through compulsory acquisition.

Four individual O orders were all signed in recent days.

North Main Street is set for an influx of students in the coming years as a large mixed-use development, which includes student apartments, has been given the green-light.

“A PERFECT storm” is how one Cork city councillor has described the ongoing situation of derelict or damaged buildings in the city and a lack of resources and funding at City Hall to combat the issue.

BUSINESS owners on North Main Street have welcomed the removal of steel girders which had been put in place over a year ago after a building's partial collapse.

North Main Street is to be closed to traffic this evening until tomorrow morning. The temporary road closure will be in place from 6:30pm today, 7 August, until Saturday morning, 8 August, in order to make the No. 63 and No.

NORTH Main Street will become another marketable quarter of the city, similar to the Victorian Quarter around the wider MacCurtain Street area.

NOTICE has been given to the owners of derelict buildings on North Main Street setting out what is required to bring them up to standard.

Traders, residents and people who shop on North Main Street have been “left in limbo” as hoarding and rubble has been blocking off a section of the street to pedestrians for more than a year.

A CAUTIOUS welcome has been given to the proposed plans for the development of North Main Street by traders. Developers BMOR intend to lodge plans for a mixed use development, which includes 280 student accommodation beds and two new retail units.

AN international development company has unveiled plans that will significantly regenerate North Main Street, with student apartments and commercial units set for the historic city street.

A Cork pharmacist has said she's never seen anything like the public's reaction to the threat of coronavirus.

Cork City Council has said every effort is being made to deal with issues faced by pedestrians and businesses on North Main St.

TRADERS on North Main Street who say they have been forced to cope with derelict buildings, littering, and unsightly hoarding on their street for an extended period are considering decisive action in an attempt to instigate significant change on the ...

LESS than a third of levies imposed on the owners of derelict sites in the city were actually collected by the city council last year, new figures have revealed.

A NORTH Main Street trader is threatening to withhold his commercial rates from the City Council until he sees some progress on derelict sites cordoned off at the top of the street.

“A thinking person’s Temple Bar” is how one of the city centre’s most successful publicans has described the future of North Main Street.

TRADERS on North Main Street say the crucial Christmas shopping season has been damaged by the lack of progress on buildings that partially collapsed last June.

Cork publican Benny McCabe has thoroughly enjoyed the reaction to news that the sign above his bar B. D. S. M. must come down and wants to thank the letter writer who referred to it as ‘aesthetically vile’.

A NEW Cork coffee shop has displayed a huge vote of confidence in North Main Street by opening their latest store next to the Gate Cinema.