School that once held classes in toilet finally gets new building

A north Cork school that once taught classes in a converted toilet due to chronic overcrowding is celebrating "a red letter day" — as construction has finally begun on a new school building.

In 2008, the Irish Examiner revealed how Glenville National School, first promised a new building in the 1990s, was forced to convert a toilet into a classroom as the school, built in 1953, was unable to cope with the increasing demand.

The matter was subsequently raised in the Dáil during Bertie Ahern’s last Leaders Questions session by then-opposition leader Enda Kenny, who told the outgoing taoiseach the Glenville case was “a disgrace”.