Gaelscoil staff and pupils suffer ‘Dickensian conditions’

PREFABS in one Dublin school are costing almost €100,000 in rent per annum, according to the school’s principal who has been seeking permanent accommodation for 13 years.

Students of Gaelscoil na Camóige in Clondalkin, Co Dublin last week protested outside the Dáil in an effort to highlight what their principal Ultan Mac Mathúna claims are “atrocious conditions” in the school.

“Housed entirely in old, run-down pre-fabricated buildings which were bought second-hand by our landlord 13 years ago, our school is a disgrace to the Government, successive Ministers at the Department of Education and Science and to a society that stands by and accepts this for our children,” he said.