Army deal clears way for school expansion

CHILDREN are set to storm the walls of Limerick’s Sarsfield Barracks.

And the army are under orders from Defence Minister Willie O’Dea to step aside in the interests of education.

The minister has agreed to give over a plot covering one-third of an acre inside the barrack walls to allow for an expansion of a neighbouring school. The boundary wall separating the barracks and the Irish-speaking Model School is to be moved in the first deal of its kind between the departments of Defence and Education.