Cork's former St Patrick’s Hospital to be used by Griffith College

Cork City Council has given the go-ahead for third-level teaching by Griffith College in the old St Patrick’s Hospital on the northside.

The former home of Marymount Hospice had been in use temporarily by St Angela’s College, but the girls’ secondary school relocated just after Christmas to its newly-refurbished home at nearby St Patrick’s Hill.

Griffith College has already been operating from part of the site on Wellington Road but required planning permission to change use of the main building to third-level education use.