Siobhán McSweeney: Cork council go-ahead for 140 apartments on Bessborough site 'f***ing disgraceful'

The Cork actor said she wanted to express 'my utter disgust and dismay over Cork City Council’s decision to allow apartments to be built on this site'

Cork native Siobhán McSweeney has slammed the decision to grant planning at Bessborough.

Actor Siobhán McSweeney has slammed the decision by Cork City Council to grant planning permission for 140 apartments on the site of the former Bessborough mother and baby institution as “fucking disgraceful”.

Permission for the apartments was granted by the council’s planning department in February, to Estuary View Enterprises. That decision is currently under appeal to An Coimisiún Pleanála, with a decision due by July 9.