Plan to rezone sports lands for homes and education campus

A CONTROVERSIAL proposal to rezone sports land for houses on the site of one of country’s most famous hurling schools in a €50 million redevelopment plan was submitted yesterday.

The move, to secure the redevelopment of St Finbarr’s-Farranferris College in the northside of Cork city, was backed by over a third of the city’s councillors — most from the northside.

This is despite the council repeatedly warning developers to keep their hands off city lands zoned for sport.