Fee-paying school set to remain at city centre base

The resolution of an accommodation crisis at a fee-paying Cork school has been welcomed by parents after a building in temporary use has become available again for classes.

An old house on Wellington Rd had been used since March while refurbishment at one of the other four buildings from which Scoil Mhuire operates on the terrace was being carried out. The work is expected to take a year.

After issues arose during the summer about its availability for the coming school year, the school wrote to parents a week ago to say all classes would have to move to a building at an industrial estate 2.5km away in Blackpool.