Pupils thrilled with upgrade from prefab to hotel

THERE were smiles all round yesterday as 165 pupils discovered they will soon be relocating from prefabs to more luxurious surroundings of a former hotel.

Cork County Council yesterday granted planning permission to Gaelscoil Uí Drisceoil to move into the former Ibis Hotel near Dunkettle which is owned by developer Seamus Geaney.

The council granted permission to convert the hotel into 14 classrooms, four resource rooms, art rooms, computer rooms, library and offices. For the past four years, the school has been housed at Old Christians Rugby Club, Glanmire, where it has seven classrooms, three of which are prefabs.