Threat to withdraw pupils over school bus row

PARENTS have threatened to withdraw their children from a school on the Cork-Limerick border if the Government goes ahead with controversial proposals to change the way it operates school buses.

Angry parents and students demonstrated outside Kildorrery National School yesterday, one of six schools in Co Cork threatened by the withdrawal of a Closed Schools agreement.

Under this agreement when small rural schools were closed and children were bused to larger, amalgamated schools, their bus travel was provided free.