New Cork City Council chief targets homes, light rail and cultural revival on South Main Street

An artist's impression of the Cork South Docks proposal.
A new cultural quarter on South Main St, optimism around delivering homes for 25,000 people in the docklands, and a belief that the Counting House would be "fantastic as a library" are some of the key targets of the new head of Cork City Council.
In her first comprehensive interview as the local authority’s second female chief executive, Valerie O’Sullivan said: "There’s a window of opportunity that exists for Cork now to do things and to do them right, and we have to walk through it.
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