UCC drops plans to move dental school and hospital to bigger site

Siobhan Lynch, Hospital School Manager with Professor Paul Brady, Dean of Cork University Dental School and Hospital. Picture: Dan Linehan

University College Cork (UCC) has dropped plans for Cork University Dental School and Hospital to move to a bigger site, despite its dean warning that the current building is “untenable” without significant investment.

The change in plans for the school, one of only two in Ireland, comes amid a national crisis in dentist numbers. One in six patients are already waiting over three months for routine appointments, the Irish Dental Association recently warned.