Secondary school makes desperate bid to survive as authorities threaten closure

AS anxious students gear up for the Junior and Leaving Certificate exams starting tomorrow, one secondary school will learn later this week if it has passed the survival test.

Its local VEC is being roped in, in a desperate bid to keep the 150 year-old school open.

Parents of pupils at St Bridget’s Secondary School in Goresbridge, Co Kilkenny, were given a week just last month to prove their school is viable, or run the risk of it being phased out over the next two years.