LIT to open €14m campus

A new €14m engineering- focused campus is to be opened by Limerick Institute of Technology in a year’s time.

The college has just been granted planning permission by An Bord Pleanála for its plans to convert an undeveloped shopping centre, retail and entertainment park at Coonagh Cross on the city’s northside.

It has been unoccupied except for a Tesco supermarket which operates on part of the eight-acre site, and LIT applied for a change of use to the development early last year.