| Those with an interest in Spike Island and its potential as a tourism attraction can now submit their thoughts and opinion online. A new website - www.spikeislandcork.com - has been set up inviting the public to make suggestions as to how Spike Island could be developed for tourism.
Since the transfer of ownership from the Department of Justice to Cork County Council in 2004, a steering committee chaired by Brendan Tuohy, a former secretary general of the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, has been established to examine how the island and former prison could be developed as a tourist attraction.
A recent report in the Irish Times detailed Cork County Council’s intentions to have Spike Island open to the public on a limited basis by summer 2010. In the same article, Martin Riordan (County Manager) indicated that the Council would be preparing medium- to long-term plans for the development of the island as a tourist attraction
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