It was a case of all-for-onesies and onesies-for-all at a national school yesterday.

Parents campaigning for a new, 800-pupil, all-Irish secondary school in a Cork town will meet TDs next week as they ramp up their campaign to avert a looming schools place crisis.

A university president went back to primary school for a day to mark the 20th anniversary of his college’s unique link to a gaelscoil.

Schoolchildren waved goodbye to cramped classrooms yesterday before a triumphant march into a spacious new state-of-the-art school.

The principal of a primary school that is poised to move to a new building has issued an invitation to all to a series of farewell events.