Developers to reopen Cork's Left Bank pub

Permission granted for student apartments at Cork's former Good Shepherd Convent

The block at 60/61 Shandon Street is to be redeveloped.  Picture Chani Anderson

Planners have cleared the way for a major student accommodation complex at the former Good Shepherd Convent in Sunday’s Well, once the site of a Magdalene Laundry and mother-and-baby home.

Permission was granted to brothers Séamus and Pádraig Kelleher who were also cleared for the redevelopment of a building on lower Shandon Street where they intend to re-open the infamous Left Bank pub.