Councillors vote down rezoning site for school

CORK’S city councillors were under fire last nightafter they voted againstrezoning a site for a new gaelscoil.

Councillors vote down rezoning site for school

The vote effectively means that the 300 students of Gaelscoil an Ghoirt Álainn in Montenotte — the city’s first multi-denominational gaelscoil — will continue to be taught in what have been described as “ramshackle” conditions.

The Department of Education, which has been working on the project for almost five years, which cleared funding and sought planning permission for the new school this year, will now have to go back to the drawing board.

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