Drone footage shows hollowed-out shell of former Cork psychiatric hospital St Kevin's after devastating fire

Shocking photos and a timelapse video that have emerged on social media show the full extent of the fire that has laid waste to a former psychiatric hospital in Cork.

Update 10pm: Photographer and videographer Evan Shelly has captured drone footage of the hollowed how St Kevin's section of the former Our Lady's Hospital in Cork city, which was gutted by fire last night.

The footage leaves no douvt as to the devastating effects of the fire.