{"id":235626,"date":"2025-12-16T11:35:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T11:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/235626\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T11:35:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T11:35:08","slug":"major-investment-in-dedicated-padel-centre-near-corks-marina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/235626\/","title":{"rendered":"Major investment in dedicated padel centre near Cork&#8217;s Marina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"contextmenu internal_Body1st\">Almost \u20ac2.3m in funding has been announced for Cork city\u2019s first dedicated indoor padel hub which opens tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Irish investment firm Quintas Capital has said that it will be investing \u20ac2.27m into The Hive, the new indoor sports and wellness facility which is located on Monahan Road near the Marina.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">The investment, which formally closed in September, marks the final deployment from the 2024 Employment Investment Incentive Scheme (EIIS) fund, in which Quintas Capital invested just under \u20ac8m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Kevin Canning, Quintas Capital chief executive officer, said the organisation believes The Hive is more than a venue. \u201cIt\u2019s a long-term investment in Cork\u2019s community and lifestyle,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">\n            \u201cOur \u20ac2.27m injection reflects our confidence in the management team\u2019s vision and in the growth potential of padel and wellness-led leisure in Cork and beyond,\u201d\u00a0\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">said Mr Canning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Rory Dennis of The Hive said the goal of the facility \u201chas always been to bring something unique to Cork \u2014 a place where people can move, connect, and belong\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">\u201cWith this backing from Quintas Capital, we\u2019re now confident we can deliver a facility that sets a new standard for sport, wellness and social life in the city,\u201d said Mr Dennis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">The Hive project saw a 19,000sq\/ft warehouse transformed into a state-of-the-art five-court indoor padel club \u2014 which also features premium amenities such as wellness spaces, recovery rooms, social areas, and a caf\u00e9 and retail space.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Quintas Capital has also confirmed that its 2025 EIIS Fund is on track to surpass \u20ac12m, and that it will close to new investor applications once it reaches a total of \u20ac15m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Almost \u20ac2.3m in funding has been announced for Cork city\u2019s first dedicated indoor padel hub which opens tomorrow.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[2736,781,79,18,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-235626","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-cork-business","9":"tag-cork-news","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115729041032505086","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}