Western Star Cork

The Western Star in Cork was a favourite haunt of UCC students for many a year but now it looks like it’ll be demolished! Looks like development has been on the cards for quite a while:

Permission was granted to Tom O’Riordan carry out development namely, permission for part demolition of existing public house and removal of existing timber outhouses, construction of 12 medical suites over 29 no. ground floor level car parking spaces and associated entrances, roadways and site works with vehicular access medical sites from the grounds of the Bon Secours Hospital at the Western Star, Western Road, Cork in accordance with plans and particulars submitted on 16/08/05; further information requested on 07/10/05; further information received on 04/04/06; clarification of F.I. requested on 26/04/06 and clarification of F.I. received on 31/05/06 Ref. T.P.05/30005

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9 responses to “Western Star Cork”

  1. Daniel avatar
    Daniel

    ‘Starries’ was great in the early 90s – back when the Beer Garden was available for all of us Autumnals. When they made the marquee permanent the rot set in, a process accelerated when they redecorated the place like some ersatz farm shed.

    Still though, I’ll be sad to see it go – more of a reflection on the modern business ethic of the sad sacks currently making up the numbers in UCC.

    1. srrenaissance avatar

      My grandfather drank there in 1908 and derailed his QCC MD degree…

      1. Gerry Scanlon avatar
        Gerry Scanlon

        My grandmother’s parents Denis and Bridget Murphy used to own the pub back then. Just wondering if you know what happened to the family as their daughter, also Bridget married my grandfather but they left Cork in 1926.

        1. Donncha avatar

          Gerry – unfortunately, I don’t know anything about the family that ran the Western Star. Maybe someone who does know will Google their names and find this post in the future, and comment on it.

  2. Dee avatar

    That’s such a shame. lovely stone building. The new ‘modern’ replacement will probably be an eyesore.

  3. James Farmer avatar

    I love the red in the image, I imagine that in real life though it probably looks kinda tacky 🙂

  4. Eater's Regret avatar

    Noooo! Not the Star, could they not have saved it?

  5. Donncha avatar

    Drove past there yesterday evening and the place has been demolished!

  6. […] note that the powers that be have demolished the “Western Star“, watering hole of generations of students.  My father used to drink there when he was in […]

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