Survey to focus on demand for schooling across the border

Thousands of families in border counties will be surveyed before Christmas on demand for the option of sending their children to school in Northern Ireland.

About 12,000 families in the North were asked to complete a similar survey recently, and the Department of Education will issue its questionnaire here in the coming days.

It is understood that more than 500 children cross the border to go to school every day, most of them travelling north from the Republic.