CBC ‘forced’ to end its role in Carrigaline school

Christian Brothers College in Cork has withdrawn from any role in a planned new secondary school in Carrigaline after claiming to be excluded by the trust body it helped secure approval to open it.

The fee-paying city school has told parents in the area that, despite leading a campaign for the Edmund Rice Schools Trust (ERST) that promised CBC involvement in its set-up and running, it has been left out of the plans.

The Department of Education decided last November to approve two new schools in the Carrigaline area to serve the satellite town and Cork’s southside suburbs from 2016. It followed a local process where two prospective patrons asked parents if they would send their child to their respective proposed schools.