Tripe+Drisheen: The Friday View 04/06
Our weekly round-up of news and events in Cork
Kennedy Quay closure
Top line: After last weekend’s gathering around Kennedy Quay, just down from City Hall, the Port of Cork decided to fence off the docks around Albert Quay and Kennedy Quay.
The details: Last weekend people went outside as people do on fine weekends, and gathered down by the port. If you know the area down by the quays, it’s a grand open space - it’s also a working dock - but there’s nothing by way of public facilities there, (bins, benches or toilets). By Sunday morning it was a right old mess. So fences are in, and crowds are out. Or at least, they’ll have to find somewhere else. There were similar scenes in Dublin City last weekend, but the big difference there is the council is going to install temporary toilets and put out more bins.
Update: As we mentioned in last week’s newsletter, the city council were planning on re-opening the toilets in North Main Street Shopping Centre. Well that’s happening. As @ronanfromcork was quick to spot - that’s a 25% increase in public toilets in the city centre. Cork City Council has some news:
Train stations are coming back
Top line: Train stations make sense. It only took a few years to gut the country of train lines and train stations, but the big infrastructure news for Cork this week is they’re coming back: Blarney/Stoneview, Blackpool/Kilbarry, and Tivoli are all in line for stations as well as a new through running platform at Kent Station. New stations and upgrades have been promised before, but this would be a step in the right direction of taking cars off the road. Ciarán Meers, chairperson of Cork Commuter Coalition, is well worth reading on this subject.
Tweet of the week 1
A Rebel moves on
The crew at Rebel Reads are moving to the Marina. They’ll be open this weekend, June 4 and 5 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Unit 3 of the Marina Commercial Park. They have a collection of second hand books from political theory to DIY to fiction. Volunteers and new members are welcome. Tripe+Drihseen hope to get down there soon. Best of luck!
Coffee in aid of Marymount Hospice
If you’re heading into the West via Ballinhassig this weekend, Steaming Mugs will be donating all of their proceeds on Saturday, June 5 to Marymount Hospice. The bright orange horse box is about 500m from the Halfway roundabout, towards Innishannon.
Tweet of the week 2
The Lee had a water chute. Be great if they brought them back along with train stations.
UCC and live animal testing
This week’s newsletter was from a Freedom of Information request that Ellie had about live animal testing in UCC. The number of live animals used in laboratory experiments in UCC dropped from 3,557 in 2019 to 1,861 in 2020 due to Covid-19 restrictions on laboratory usage.
And to finish, some young masters from Sunday’s Well.
