Legal submissions in a saga surrounding rights to a field in the middle of a Cork suburb will be made on Monday, as the presiding judge acknowledged yesterday it was a highly emotional case for all parties.

Residents from the Mayfield and Montenotte area of Cork claimed yesterday their use of a green area — which they have enjoyed for as long as anyone can remember — is about to end with the building of a gaelscoil and other changes.

THE newly-announced Forum on Patronage and Pluralism in the Primary Sector will change primary education in Ireland. But is the minister’s target of 1,500 schools transferring to new patronage achievable? If it is, what will all these schools transform into and what will it mean for parents?

PARENTS who have been campaigning for almost 20 years for a permanent new school for their children are taking their fight to the streets.

CORK’S city councillors are poised to do a controversial U-turn on a policy of not rezoning sports land for development.

CORK’S city councillors were under fire last nightafter they voted againstrezoning a site for a new gaelscoil.

ON Monday next, Cork City Council will vote on whether to rezone a portion of the ‘Tank Field’ in Montenotte to facilitate construction of a permanent building for Gaelscoil an Ghoirt Álainn, Cork’s only multidenominational and co-educational Gaelscoil.