Tánaiste approves €30m contract for St Patrick's College, Drumcondra [education.ie]
- Published: 14 July 2010
Building work is set to start on a new €30 million building project at St Patrick's College, Drumcondra, Dublin, after the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills, Mary Coughlan TD, approved the contract for the project this week.
The new 12,000sq/m facility, which includes new lecture theatres, libraries and offices, in addition to the refurbishment of 6,000sq/m of existing space, is expected to be finished in 2012.
Announcing the move, the Tánaiste said: 'This project will transform the campus in St Patrick’s College of Education and bring its facilities to a new level of state-of-the-art modernity.
'St Patrick's College has experienced strong demand for its programmes, which has resulted in student numbers more than doubling over the past decade.
'Enrolments have risen from 1,024 in the 1999/2000 academic year to 2,500 in 2009/2010.
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