[ Cork City Council - Annual Report 2020 ]
produce in the City centre. The traders and City Council worked together to reconfigure the market layout to adhere to public health guidelines, enabling the market to re-open in May 2020. The market has continued to trade throughout 2020. The traders are operating within public health guidelines and have taken extra steps to ensure social distancing and safety for their customers. The property section also supported the COVID-19 response in the City through the redeployment of a number of staff to support front-line services, the community response and park rangers. While the boundary extension came into effect on 31st May 2019, the impact of the transfer of significant property assets and infrastructure projects became clearly apparent in 2020.
Daly’s Bridge, known locally as the “Shakey Bridge”, is a single-span steel suspension bridge which spans the north channel of the River Lee in Cork City. It provides pedestrian access between Sunday’s Well to the north and Fitzgerald’s Park and Ferry Walk in the Mardyke area to the south. Completed in 1926 and opened in 1927, it was constructed by the London-based David Rowell & Company of Westminster in London to a specification of Stephen W. Farrington, the then Cork City Engineer. It was then, and still is the only suspension bridge in Cork City. Daly’s Bridge is included on Cork City Council’s Record of Protected Structures and is recorded on the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage where it has Artistic, Historical, Social and Technical categories of special interest, and a Regional significance rating. A major repair and rehabilitation project was carried out on Daly’s Bridge during 2020. The works commenced in August 2019 and substantial completion was achieved in December 2020. The extent of the works is as follows:
Infrastructure Development
Repair and Rehabilitation of Daly’s (Shakey) Bridge
• Phased dismantling of the latticed deck for removal off-site for grit-blasting
Daly’s Bridge (The Shakey Bridge) on the river Lee.
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