School continues wait for building

NONE of the pupils who were at Star of the Sea National School when a new building was promised are still attending classes there.

They have gone on to second-level education already but staff and hundreds more children are still teaching and learning in the same building built in the 1970s for 140 boys in Passage West, Co Cork.

But more than 300 boys and girls now occupy its four classrooms and the five prefabs which have engulfed what was once a playground and playing field.