Government cuts have forced a primary school to ask children to bring in their own toilet roll, soap, and hand towels.

The principal of a Co Cork gaelscoil says she is delighted that An Bord Pleanála has granted permission for a new school, which she has been seeking for the past 18 years.

IF YOU thought the bad old days of the hedge school had been banished to folk memory by the Celtic Tiger, think again: it’s close relative, the shed school, is playing host to 18 pupils in a west Cork town.