The Department of Education still intends to build a new home for a gaelscoil on Cork’s northside but says it has to complete the acquisition of the site from the city council before work can begin.

Work on a new building for a gaelscoil on Cork’s northside is still awaiting the transfer of the controversial site for its construction from the city council.

The controversial building of a new school on playing fields on Cork’s northside is to go ahead as part of next year’s €370m schools capital programme.

A Cork Gaelscoil has welcomed a court decision that should let its new school building go ahead.

Cork City Council has said it acted in the interests of residents as a court case concerning access rights to a green area in Mayfield came to an end.

Legal submissions in a saga surrounding rights to a field in the middle of a Cork suburb will be made on Monday, as the presiding judge acknowledged yesterday it was a highly emotional case for all parties.

Residents from the Mayfield and Montenotte area of Cork claimed yesterday their use of a green area — which they have enjoyed for as long as anyone can remember — is about to end with the building of a gaelscoil and other changes.

Pupils, parents and staff of an East Cork gaelscoil cheered the news that work should begin on their long-awaited new school building within three years.

A CORK city councillor has claimed that sectional interests were put ahead of the public interest in previous decisions relating to a planning application for a gaelscoil on the city’s northside.

AN appeal against Cork City Council’s refusal of planning for a new home for one of the country’s oldest multi-denominational gaelscoileanna is expected to be lodged within days.

A SCHOOL at the centre of bitter controversy over plans for a new building has invited public representatives to an open day today to hear its side of the story.

LOCAL residents opposing the use of part of the Tank Field on Cork’s northside for a school are to hold a public meeting next week.

PARENTS who have been campaigning for almost 20 years for a permanent new school for their children are taking their fight to the streets.

PLANS for a new gaelscoil which have split a community on Cork’s northside have been hit with another planning difficulty.

THE family of brave toddler Holly O’Keeffe, who is fighting life-threatening tumours, has received more than €50,000 in public donations.

A GREEN PARTY local election candidate has pledged that if elected on Friday, he will plough all his council payments and expenses into developing public parks.

ELECTION candidates hoping to get seats in Cork City Council’s north-east ward may have to walk a tightrope on an issue that proves just how local politics really is.

BOUNDARY changes, a retirement, and a clerical error have thrown the race for the fourth seat in this redrawn northside ward wide open.

A DECISION by An Bórd Pleanála to grant planning permission for a new school on land zoned for sport is final, Cork city councillors will be told tonight.

STUDENTS whose hopes of a move to a new school building were shattered when councillors refused to rezone the site last summer were celebrating yesterday after the decision was overturned.

CORK’S city councillors are poised to do a controversial U-turn on a policy of not rezoning sports land for development.

A GAELSCOIL which lost a crucial rezoning vote for a new school has been forced to apply again for temporary planning permission for its “ramshackle” buildings.

CORK’S city councillors were under fire last nightafter they voted againstrezoning a site for a new gaelscoil.

ON Monday next, Cork City Council will vote on whether to rezone a portion of the ‘Tank Field’ in Montenotte to facilitate construction of a permanent building for Gaelscoil an Ghoirt Álainn, Cork’s only multidenominational and co-educational Gaelscoil.

SCHOOLCHILDREN who are taught in “ramshackle” conditions pleaded with politicians last night to rezone land that will give them a new school next week.

A LOCAL authority which had to suspend a meeting when a protest group entered its chambers says it plans to step up security.