Sisters to determine length of school journey

THE Mercy Sisters are expected to make a decision after next week’s general election which will determine whether or not dozens of girls in Galway and Clare must double their journey to school.

They will wait until after the election to decide on the Department of Education’s request to continue enrolling first year students at Seamount College in Kinvara, Co Galway, from September until 2011. The nuns announced last October that the school would be closed in 2009, but this was extended earlier this year arising from a strong local campaign against the move.

The order also announced in October that the school would no longer take new enrolments, meaning dozens of girls in south Galway and north Clare must seek alternative second level schools each autumn.