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.

AT a meeting of the Northside Principals’ Group meeting in Scoil Iosagáin, Farranree recently, 22 principals in Cork city met to discuss the proposed cuts to DEIS schools.

The principals of 12 Cork primary schools — all in the Department of Education’s DEIS (Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools) disadvantage scheme — have written the following letter to local TDs to highlight how Budget 2012 will affect them and their pupils:

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