Cork Olympian Sonia O'Sullivan is among those calling for Spike Island to be made more accessible for wheelchair users.
An exhibition to honour Cork Paralympian Kay McShane had been proposed for the Island - Kay McShane won a Silver medal at the Paralympic Games in 1984 along with three consecutive London Marathons, and grew up on Spike Island.
She passed away at the age of 70 in 2019, and Spike Island had proposed to host an exhibition in her honour.
However, the McShane family have called for Spike to become more accessible for wheelchair users, including a bus service on the Island and for the ferry to be made more accessible to people with disabilities.
They have now written a letter to Spike Island calling for the issues to be addressed before the exhibition can go ahead, which was co-signed by Sonia O'Sullivan and the Irish Wheelchair Association, among others.
A separate petition has reached over 500 signatures.
Speaking to RedFM news, Kay McShane's husband Michael White says there has to be a will to make the changes needed to make Spike Island more wheelchair accessible.
"It's probably going to be a big costly exercise to make the thing proper. A proper jetty, where people can just wheel down and on to a boat. And at the other end, over on the island, to be able to wheel off, onto a bus and up the hill.
"Those two things are probably going to be more costly, because you're going to have to adjust the pier.
"It's not impossible - it just takes the will to do it."
