New Cork City business school to be one of the biggest in Ireland

University College Cork president Patrick O’Shea used the inaugural Cork University Business School conference to announce plans to build a business school in Cork City centre that will be one of the biggest in the country.

Prof O’Shea told 900 students at Cork Opera House the university wanted to match the ambitions of the conference organisers, made up of the Accounting and Finance Society, Business Information Systems Society, Commerce Society, and Entrepreneurship and Social Society at UCC.

He said: “What really appeals to me about this conference is the level of ambition that has been displayed by the student organisers and the focus that has been put on competing internationally and entrepreneurship.