Parents plead for new school

PARENTS who are deserting a west Dublin suburb because of a chronic lack of school places in the area, have appealed to Education Minister Noel Dempsey to build a new facility.

Hundreds of parents in Lucan have no idea where their children will be educated because of the lack of school places. Planners and politicians are being blamed for allowing houses to be built with little thought about infrastructure.

In September 2002, a voluntary group of parents opened an Educate Together school in Lucan. Over 700 children’s names were received but at the moment the school has only 24 students, and two teachers, at a Scout Hall in Lucan Village.