Two new secondary schools for Carrigaline

The growing town of Carrigaline is to have two additional second-level schools from 2016.

Education Minister Ruairi Quinn had invited patrons earlier this year to apply for the running of just one new second-level school in the town, 12km from Cork City. But he has decided the Edmund Rice Schools Trust (ERST), which owns former Christian Brothers schools, and multi-denominational schools body, Educate Together, should each run new schools which could eventually cater for 600 students each.

Carrigaline already has an existing community school, undergoing a major extension, and an all-Irish multi-denominational school will open next September under the patronage of Cork Education and Training Board.