School’s decade-long wait for new building may be over

THERE may be light at the end of a long tunnel for a Cork school waiting almost a decade for new accommodation – while children have been taught in expensive prefabs.

A planning application lodged for a two-classroom school in Rathcormac should mean the beginning of the end of Scoil Bhríde’s long wait for a new home, more than three years after the site adjoining their existing premises was bought by the Department of Education.

The school was the subject of controversial comments last summer by Cork East Fianna Fáil TD Ned O’Keeffe who said he would not lobby for the project to be progressed by the department because the people of Rathcormac had not supported him in enough numbers when he was looking for votes in the 2007 general election.