Many schools to remain closed for rest of the week

DOZENS of Cork schools will remain closed for the rest of the week as they await the return of water supplies cut off after last week’s flood damage.

Most of the city’s northside is without running water which meant the area’s schools, as well as a small number in the Ballinlough area of the southside, had to stay closed to hundreds of pupils.

Education Minister Batt O’Keeffe, meanwhile, was officially opening a new primary school outside the city which has water recycling facilities allowing it to use rainwater for toilets and washing facilities in cases of shortages.