Parents to fight against closure of 12-pupil school

A CAMPAIGN has been launched to save a 12-pupil national school, close to the Cork/Kerry border.

Parents of children attending the tiny school at Shrone, in the shadow of the Paps Mountains, are pleading with Education Minister Mary Hanafin to keep their school open.

The school is due to be closed, and the plan is to bus the children to a new €2m central, amalgamated school being built in Rathmore, about four miles away.