Safety fears as school access road unfinished

FEARS have been expressed for the safety of young children who have to walk through muck and rubble to reach a state-of-the-art school after building work near the site stalled.

Despite getting a new €3.8 million school building last year, the pupils of St Colman’s Boys’ National School in Macroom, Co Cork have been left without a proper access road or footpaths.

They have to walk uphill from Cork Street along a temporary gravel path, negotiate uneven terrain and pass large concrete sewage pipes which jut out of the ground.