Efforts continue to help schoolgoers avoid 2-mile move

Efforts are continuing to avoid moving 400 secondary students to temporary classrooms almost two miles from their Cork city centre school this week.

Parents of students at Scoil Mhuire, a fee-paying all-girls school, reacted angrily last week to the planned move of all classes to a northside industrial estate in Blackpool.

The school had told parents by letter that the move was forced on it when a premises being leased since March on the same street during refurbishment work had become unavailable for the upcoming term.