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.

The Department of Education has not been approached about reform plans for four northside Cork schools that include closing the North Monastery primary school.

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.

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.

Children who want to be taught through Irish will have to be driven past a local school on Cork’s northside to others several miles away because of a one-third cut in intake, a councillor has claimed.

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.

CONCERNS have been raised by school inspectors about teaching and management at a Gaelscoil operating from a business park.