Country’s last all-male vocational school opens its doors to girls

GIRLS can formally apply to enrol in the country’s last remaining all-male vocational sector school after Department of Education approval for the change.

Nagle Community College in the Cork suburb of Mahon was forced to accept a girl into first year last autumn after a successful appeal against the school’s refusal to enrol her, because it emerged that its admission policy did not specifically state that only boys could attend.

Since Megan Kavanagh began at the school in September, the school board and City of Cork Vocational Education Committee (VEC) that funds it have consulted with local community and educational parties about the level of interest in opening the doors to females.