Disappointment for pupils forced to use outdoor toilets

THE 34 schools still waiting almost two years after a promise of a new school include Kilfinane National School, whose long campaign for a new building was highlighted in the Irish Examiner last June.

They had just been told by Education Minister Batt O’Keeffe that he could not sanction the work to begin because he was reviewing all capital spending in his department, including the €586 million school building programme.

The school was last refurbished in 1909 and it appears the pupils will mark the building’s centenary still using the same outdoor toilets, after finding out yesterday that their project has not been cleared for construction to begin.