River Lee

I'd say you're not alone there.

Um, Kelly, kind of in, in, in tandem of what you were saying there, pedal boats on hire on the River Lee.

Oh, yes.

Would that, would that be something you'd, you'd, just gonna-

Six hours.

That's roughly how long parts of Cork's Marina Park can sit underwater during a storm before the tide drops far enough for the River Lee to take it back.

Most parks are designed not to flood.

Marina Park is designed to do exactly that, and it's one of the reasons this 36-hectare site on the edge of Cork's South Docklands is being called Ireland's first water park.

Sure.

I think Marina Park is probably known to most Corkonians as the location of Páirc Ui Chaoimh, the, the heart of the GAA, hurling in particular.

And around that, there's a, there's a green area that used to actually serve the city as a showgrounds beforehand, and a lot of other, uh, green areas along the River Lee.

And the entire area of the park is about 36 hectares in total, so it's a big, big area.

It is a port town built on an island in a river.

The River Lee splits around it and comes together again below.

The tide climbs the quays twice a day and slides back out, and the whole city smells of salt and hemp and wet stone.

Ships come up the channel from the sea with sugar and timber.

Imagine, if you will, the city of Cork in Ireland at the very end of the 18th century.

It is a port town built on an island in a river.

The River Lee splits around it and comes together again below.

The tide climbs the quays twice a day and slides back out, and the whole city smells of salt and hemp and wet stone.

Yeah.

And to having a very seamless interchange at Kent is the driver for having the bridge where it is, the bridge on the River Lee, and-

This is the controversial bridge, which-

Which is controversial because in-