It has been over a decade since Britain's Queen Elizabeth made a famous visit to Cork's English Market in the city - bringing it to global attention.
But with structural cracks in the facade on the Grand Parade side and several empty stalls, traders in the market have raised concerns about its future.
So has the market been a victim of its own success?
The Chicken Inn, based in the heart of the English market, has been in business for over 60 years.
Speaking to RTÉ's This Week, owner Jack Mulcahy says parking in Cork city centre is an issue for the market.
"Business has been poor all over because there is no parking available in town.
"They can go into the car park, but it's going to cost them around €3.50 an hour. They can go to supermarkets outside of town which won't cost them anything when it comes to parking," he says.
Mr Mulcahy’s business is directly across from a number of stalls which are closed.
"The corporation is very slow about replacing businesses in the market," he adds.
Mary-Rose Daly, who runs Coffee Central, also agrees that parking is affecting the market's footfall.
"I'm 23 years in this business, but my parents were here before me.
"Yes, there are tourists around. But I actually don't think there are as many as there were the previous years.
"We'd be busy in the morning and around 2.30pm to 3m it kind of dies down around that time, the city in general dies down around that time.
"There's no parking. People aren't prepared to come into the city and I find that change, particularly this year," she says.
Ms Daly says her business does benefit from tourists visiting the English Market.
"We'd get a particular spin-off from some of the cruises coming in, we might get something out of them. As you can see today, they're not blocking up any aisles and this is Friday, but the market is changing.
"From 30 plus butchers we're down to four butchers. We must have a shopping aspect to the market. It'll thrive if we can have people that can buy food and coffee to take out, and people that can shop for their dinners also.
"The market is changing from that point of view," she says.
On those busy periods, when those tourists do visit the English market, Rose Daly from the Chocolate Shop believes more organisation is needed.
"Troublesome thing is that tourists are on a different pace. We're all the same when we're travelling, and you've got locals who are just dashing in to pick something up and you've got tourists sauntering in front of them so it's a kind of a miss match.
"It's not quite entirely a tourist place, but we're kind of coping. I mean, I suppose it's OK for a business like me, it's probably different if you're selling fish," Ms Daly says.
The Lord Mayor of Cork, Councilor Kieran McCarthy, says the English Market and Cork City Council have launched a campaign to help find new traders,
"The main fabric that we have today is from the 1980s. I know we've had discussions at Council level that there are sections of the roof that need to be replaced.
"But show me a market in Europe that doesn't need that investment. As Lord Mayor, I am calling for just further financial investment and I have been, I will be talking to the head of my Finance Committee on that."
Cllr McCarthy says more investment is needed to lure those new businesses into the market.
"I just think that we needed to up our campaign to attract more people in. I recently had a walk around through here and the traders had concerns like we need to fix the roof there and look there's a few empty stalls there, asking can we do anything about that?
"I think like four of the empty stalls in the market, at least half of them like people retired, the people just moved on.
"It wasn't a case of there's problems with the market. I suppose in the last two weeks now you can see 'To Let' signs going up and there's a call out in the English Market’s website and on their social media.
"Yes there's a lot of work to do, but we're also very, very proud of our English market," Cllr McCarthy says.
