Munster’s first community national school to open in September

The first community national school in Munster is due to open its doors to pupils in north Cork in September.

Although planning has yet to be lodged for a permanent home, the new school is set to operate from a temporary home in Mallow at the start of the next term.

Co Cork Vocational Education Committee, which is now part of Cork Education and Training Board, was approved in 2012 to be patron of a new primary school in the town. As a community national school, it will be the first such primary school in Cork, but also in Munster.