Education board to lodge €19m application

The Cork Education and Training Board (ETB) has confirmed it plans to lodge a planning application within weeks for three new schools in Carrigaline as part of a €19m investment in a new education campus.

The new schools — a gaelscoil, a second-level gaelcholáiste and a Sonas Special Junior Primary School — will cater for more than 1,000 pupils when they are completed and opened by 2017.

But the Cork ETB also announced yesterday that it will open a gaelcholáiste in a temporary building in the town in September 2015 in advance of the construction of the permanent building.