Assurances are being made that the use of a former office building as a gaelcholáiste in a Co Cork town will only be a temporary measure.

A Cork northside all-Irish secondary school which had to turn away dozens of pupils because of space restrictions this year has been approved to expand by the Department of Education.

Management at primary schools on the northside of Cork City are to meet and thrash out a way of ensuring their survival in the face of falling enrolments.

The Cork Education and Training Board (ETB) has confirmed it plans to lodge a planning application within weeks for three new schools in Carrigaline as part of a €19m investment in a new education campus.

Cork’s Lord Mayor has urged parents and management at a school that wants to enrol junior infants to discuss any changes with other schools and avoid creating enemies.

A Cork primary school has strongly criticised a neighbouring school over its unapproved plans to enrol infant boys.

Christian Brothers College in Cork has withdrawn from any role in a planned new secondary school in Carrigaline after claiming to be excluded by the trust body it helped secure approval to open it.

The first day of spring sunshine marked celebrations at a northside school in Cork City, days after a reprieve from possible closure. The 170 boys — along with teachers and parents — of Scoil Mhuire Fatima took their party outdoors at lunchtime on Friday as they marked victory in their campaign against its planned closure.

THE future of the Church, its power, and its position in Irish society have been glimpsed over the last three weeks in a spat about education. The location was the northside of Cork City, but unfolding events spoke volumes of how the Catholic Church at large intends to shape a future to serve its needs and retain as much power as possible.

The trustees of Cork’s northside primary schools have been urged to consult properly before making any new proposals to deal with enrolment issues in the area.

Plans to close the North Monastery primary school in Cork City have been withdrawn after angry opposition by parents, pupils, staff and the wider local community.

Hundreds of people took to the streets of Cork to demand removal of plans that would close the North Monastery primary school on the city’s northside.

The trustees of a Cork city school whose management and parents oppose plans to close it are being asked to explain their proposal to TDs and senators next month.

Parents fighting to prevent the closure of a historic Cork school are taking their campaign on to the streets.

Parents at the second of two Cork city primary schools proposed for amalgamation have voted unanimously against the move.

Parents of pupils at Cork’s North Monastery primary school have vowed to chain themselves to the gates as they insist plans to move the boys into a merger with a nearby convent school will not go ahead.

The proposed merger of two of Cork’s oldest primary schools is causing controversy on the city’s northside.

A Cork city centre gaelcholáiste is offering more first-year places next autumn, which could ease difficulties for some families disappointed by a one-third cut in intake at a northside all-Irish college.

The news that Munster’s first Educate Together second-level school is to open in Co Cork has been welcomed locally.

Educate Together have been confirmed as patrons at five of nine new secondary schools planned for 2015 / 2016.

The growing town of Carrigaline is to have two additional second-level schools from 2016.

The manager of a secondary school criticised for reducing intake from three classes to two is unable to say when a ruling will be made on whether to apply for extra buildings to cater for demand.

In a history extending back to 1888, CBC Cork yesterday celebrated one of its proudest days when Uachtarán na hÉireann, Michael D. Higgins, visited the school to commemorate its 125th celebrations.

The Department of Education is considering applications from eight prospective patrons for control of a dozen new schools to be opened in the next three years.

A manager has been appointed to a leading all-Irish secondary school following the dissolution of its board of management after a public row over admissions policy.

A Cork all-Irish school has reversed its decision not to enrol a third first-year class next September after more than 20 appeals were made to the Department of Education.

A row between the board of the only all-Irish secondary school on Cork City’s northside and its trustees has left dozens of children upset at being refused enrolment for next year.

The Department of Education will not be able to handle a glut of extra property transfers from religious orders within its current resources.

THE 46 most valuable education assets held by the religious orders were not offered to the state under a renegotiated redress deal in 2010.

The Christian Brothers has pledged €161m in cash and land to make amends to victims of clerical child abuse, it was revealed today.

MORE than two centuries of direct involvement by the Christian Brothers in Irish education has ended with the handing over of its 96 schools to a lay trust.

The Christian Brothers are formally handing over management of their 96 schools throughout the State today.

THE Christian Brothers yesterday announced its 206-year involvement in the education system will come to an end in September.

THE historic hand-over of more than 130 schools run by the Christian Brothers is in progress and could be formally completed within two years.

The Christian Brothers are reportedly setting up a new lay establishment to take over the running of 138 schools currently under the order's control.