Parents and pupils protest at Ahern’s office

PARENTS and pupils of a school in Taoiseach Bertie Ahern’s stomping ground brought their frustration at lack of progress on a new building to his office yesterday.

The Taoiseach is TD for the area served by Gaelscoil Cholmcille, which has been working out of a football clubhouse for the past 10 years.

The school had hoped to relocate to a building being vacated when three other primary schools in the area were due to amalgamate. But last week it emerged the amalgamation has fallen through so the Department of Education has had to go back to the drawing board for a new location.