RURAL Ireland has been stripped of its post offices and garda stations and now the Government is squeezing out small national schools in a bid to make savings, a meeting of the Save our Small Schools Campaign in Dunmanway, Co Cork, heard yesterday.

SCHOOLS Technology Competition winner Daire O’Shea, of Ballinora National School, was presented with his prize by the Lord Mayor, Cllr Deirdre Clune, at gala ceremony in City Hall yesterday.