The first community national school in Munster is due to open its doors to pupils in north Cork in September.

Two new secondary schools are planned for Co Cork in 2016, with approximately 1,500 students eventually to be catered for in Carrigaline and East Cork.

The head of the Department of Education does not know if Co Cork Vocational Education Committee intentionally misled it over leases it entered into without the department’s prior permission.

MORE than 50 schools have been added to the Department of Education’s Summer Works Scheme for a range of repairs and other projects to be carried out during the school holidays.

A SCHOOLS campus bringing primary and second-level education together in the west Cork town of Bantry is set to be finished by the end of next year.