CUBS project scrapped: UCC pulls plug on €17m Cork city centre business school plan

UCC has quietly stepped back from its flagship Cork University Business School project, despite millions already spent and years of preparation

A visualisation of UCC's proposed CUBS development on South Terrace in Cork. Read Mick Clifford's in-depth analysis of the saga in Saturday's 'Irish Examiner' in print or online. Image: Pedersen Focus

A major plan by University College Cork (UCC) to develop a world-class business school on a city centre site that cost €17m has been abandoned, the Irish Examiner has learned. 

The university has not yet officially announced that it will not go ahead with the landmark project, but multiple sources have confirmed that it is all but dead.