Future’s bright for grey building

HAPPIER days beckon for the Grey Building - the former Our Lady’s Hospital building in Cork city, for many years the longest edifice in the country, has been rehabilitated.

With 33 apartments in one third of the striking Gothic-style building going on the market today, its new occupants will be committed purchasers.

And, despite the 150-year-old former psychiatric hospital building’s sometimes gloomy and sad past, a visit at an open sales day today is likely to show that a new generation here will look forwards, not backwards.