Special needs pupils taught in storage room

Parents of three children with special needs have said they were horrified to learn the youngsters were being taught in a windowless storage room in a newly opened €4.2m national school in Co Cork.

However, Dónal Ó Ciarán, principal of Rushbrooke National School in Cobh, said last night he was hopeful that plans to revamp facilities would satisfy the parents and fully serve the needs of their children.

One parent, Maria Fleming, has taken her 10-year-old daughter, Crea, out of class after finding she was being taught in the 30sq ft room.