Bell sounds the end of school’s prefab era
Yesterday, Education Minister Ruairi Quinn rang in the official opening of an extension at a thriving West Cork primary school — 20 years after it first applied for funding to move out of prefabs.
Knockskeagh National School, some three miles outside Clonakilty, now has 109 pupils, but back in the mid-80s it had two dozen students and just one teacher. Parents locally decided to raise the money to cover the cost of a second teacher, Johnny Walsh, who yesterday, in his role of principal, helped to celebrate the opening of a new extension containing three new classrooms.
