MacCurtain Street, Cork
55 MacCurtain Street is a former budget hotel in Cork city used as an IPAS international-protection accommodation centre. The Department's Cork 2025 inspection collection on gov.ie lists a "MacCurtain Street" centre with a Q4 2025 inspection report. According to the Echo (Echo Live, 26 September 2024), a Department briefing note described the property as "a budget hotel which consists of 73 en-suite bedrooms over seven floors" providing "104 beds in 73 rooms" for single female international protection applicants, with a one-year contract signed with the provider. The Echo reported the site is owned and operated by MacCurtain Street Hoteliers Ltd.
Capacity
104
people (reported)
Per night
€84
per person (benchmark)
Annual
€3.2m
estimated
Background
The site is at 55 MacCurtain Street, Cork. Irish international protection accommodation is provided through IPAS (the International Protection Accommodation Service), under the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth. For how the system works and what it costs, open the cost panel on the interactive map with Ireland selected.
Cost
Irish IPAS accommodation is funded by the State. At a blended benchmark of about €84 per person per night (the 2024 whole-system average reported by RTÉ), the 104 people reported here imply roughly €3.2m per year. This is an order-of-magnitude figure for context only, not a site-specific invoice — over 90% of IPAS accommodation is commercially provided and emergency rates run far above State-owned centres.
Sources
gov.ie — IPAS, Inspections of Direct Provision and EROC Centres in County Cork 2025 · Feb 2026. View source
Coordinates geocoded from the published address/town via OpenStreetMap; status reflects the cited reporting and may have changed since.