Board approves college use of former convent

Cork City Council has approved the use of a former hospital as a third-level college.

In March, Griffith College sought permission for the change-of-use of the ground floor of the three-storey former convent at St Patrick’s Hospital, on Wellington Road.

The site, previously occupied by Marymount Hospice and St Patrick’s Hospital, is in temporary use by a secondary girls’ school (at the main hospital building).