The events centre site on the former Beamish & Crawford brewery with construction underway in the background on a student apartment development. Picture Dan LinehanTánaiste says decision on extra Events Centre funding will allow for early 2019 construction startLEGAL agreement on public funding for the Cork events centre will be finalised in the coming weeks with construction starting as soon as early 2019, Tánaiste Simon Coveney has said. “This loose commentary that nothing is happening on the events centre - nothing could be further from the truth," he told the Evening Echo. The then Taoiseach Enda Kenny turning the sod on the Cork Events Centre in February 2016. It is a 6,000 events centre that will probably be full four or five nights a week.

Source: Evening echo November 05, 2018 14:15 UTC