School has ‘rats, leaks, rotten floors’

CHILDREN in a national school in Galway are being taught in a 109-year-old, crumbling, rat-infested building, it was claimed yesterday.

Parents of children in Eglish National School in Ballinasloe expressed outrage that their children are being taught in a building more than a century old and which is in very dangerous condition.

In a statement issued yesterday, the Parents’ Association of the school highlighted a litany of problems with the school building, ranging from rats, mice, a rotten roof, rotten floors and leaking plumbing.