The long awaited Cork School of Music project is finally set to go ahead after a six-year delay.
A contract for the €60 million building was agreed this afternoon between the Department of Education and German building contractors, Hochtief Developments Limited.
The new school of music, which will accommodate 400 full-time and 2,000 part-time students, is being built by public-private partnership and will be open for the beginning of the academic year in September 2007.
The news that the project is finally to go ahead has been widely welcomed.
