Video: Protests to continue until new school built

Protesters have warned they will take to the streets for as long as it takes to get a new school built.

Video: Protests to continue until new school built

Up to 1,000 people — children, teachers, parents and their supporters from Gaelscoil de hÍde — marched through the streets of Fermoy, Co Cork, yesterday to highlight their growing frustration at the snail’s pace at which plans for a new school are progressing.

They want a promise, made by the Department of Education in 2011 to provide a replacement school for their current facility, which is archaic and cramped, to be honoured.

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