ANGRY county councillors are demanding that the Department of Education reveal how many children are being educated in prefabricated buildings in Cork.

TWO schools involved in separate, high-profile campaigns for better facilities have joined forces to end the new education minister’s honeymoon period.

THE school where children are being taught in a converted toilet hit back at the Taoiseach last night after he suggested it had not availed of funding.

EARLIER this week the plight of Glenville National School was highlighted where, just like the situation in hundreds of other communities across the country, the local school is no longer capable of providing the service it, and everyone involved with it, would wish.

FINE GAEL leader Enda Kenny told the Dáil it was “a disgrace” that a school was forced to convert a toilet into a classroom after the Irish Examiner highlighted the situation yesterday.

AT least 50 schools around the country are being sued for failing to stop children being bullied.

A FORMER pupil has sued a school for not providing adequate supervision after he was beaten up on the way to class.