Presentation Brothers hand over to lay trustees

THE ownership of eight Presentation Brothers’ schools has been taken over by a board of lay trustees. They include seven Cork schools.

Although the handover to the new Presentation Brothers Schools Trust (PBST) took place in September, the change was marked at a weekend Mass coinciding with the congregation’s feast day.

The order has only around 100 brothers in Ireland and many of them are retired, although falling vocations was not the only reason for the move.