Landmark school to retain historic features

Work is under way to refurbish and extend one of Cork’s oldest secondary schools — but it will still retain many historic features remembered by generations offormer schoolgirls.

St Angela’s College and its 540 students have moved temporarily from their St Patrick’s Hill home to accommodate the €11m building works due for completion by the end of next year.

With initial site works complete, principals past and present were given the joint task of turning the sod to recognise their work that turned more than 15 years of planning into reality.