Parents to meet TDs on gaelscoil crisis

Parents campaigning for a new, 800-pupil, all-Irish secondary school in a Cork town will meet TDs next week as they ramp up their campaign to avert a looming schools place crisis.

A committee of parents from Gaelscoil Uí Riordáin primary school in Ballincollig has lodged a formal application with the Department of Education calling for the construction of a new, fully independent, 800-place, second-level gaelcholaiste in the town.

The campaign was launched following a public meeting in May at the gaelscoil, one of Ireland’s largest where pupils numbers will break the 600-barrier in September, to discuss the immediate lack of second level, all-Irish education places in the town.