Hundreds on the streets to save North Mon primary school

Hundreds of people took to the streets of Cork to demand removal of plans that would close the North Monastery primary school on the city’s northside.

As the deadline looms for responses from four schools the subject of primary restructuring plans, a clear message was sent to trustees of Scoil Mhuire Fatima at the North Mon to withdraw the plans.

It is proposed that the Edmund Rice Schools Trust all-boys school would amalgamate with nearby St Vincent’s convent primary school next September, the new school to be on the St Vincent’s site under Daughters of Charity trusteeship.