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CORK CITY’S MAIN thoroughfare is St Patrick Street, a softly winding street that is a popular shopping spot.
Like many city centre streets, this was once a mainly residential area, but today it is a commercial location. It underwent quite a transformation from 2002 – 2004, getting modernised in time for it to hold the title of City of Culture in 2005.
Cork city’s centre is located on marshy islands on the river Lee, as this map of the area shows. According to Cork Past and Present, St Patrick’s St was formed in 1783, and the river channels between the island of the River Lee were covered over for the city centre roads.
During refurbishment in 2005, some of these channels were exposed for the first time in 200 years.
Saint Patrick’s Bridge was opened in 1789, which greatly helped the street’s development to make it an important street for Cork.
Today, the wide street is mainly pedestrianised, with just two lanes for traffic. It’s a much more interesting and vibrant street to walk down, with the development of the Opera Lane area also adding even more high street stores to attract shoppers.
Off Patrick Street, you’ll find the business-orientated South Mall, with the Imperial Hotel (where stars like Grace Kelly once stayed); the Grand Parade which holds Bishop Lucey Park and the fountain; the Crawford Art Gallery, Paul St and the Opera House.
All images taken from the National Library of Ireland Catalogue, or the National Library of Ireland Flickr account, used with kind permission.
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Detective says the attack is ” unsual ” for a town like Ballymoney.
Anyone put some sense to that for me. ..
No idea! Ballymoney is a typical unionist Hellhole.
It’s normally a quiet town.
Is that where you are from it was the nationalist again was it?
I have no idea who it was, it’s a shocking innocent that thankfully doesn’t happen here too often.
I think you mean incident numpty! Im glad your taken a mature view this time there may be hope for you yet
Predictive txt on my fone. Sorry about that mate. I’ll strive for better in future.
Good man keep up the good work!
They haven’t gone away you know…
Who??
Murdering terrorist lowlifes in general
Where does it say terrorists? Missed that bit now you could be right but you could also be wrong!
Call it intuition…
It may or may not have been paramilitaries, but either way, in my book kneecapping and beating someone to death is a terrorist act regardless of which gang is doing it.
Thats a bit of an extreme view
Why?
Seems to be an uplift in violent crime up North recently.
Don’t piss people off!
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