Protests expected over slow progress of gaelscoil build

Another major street protest is expected to be mounted by pupils and staff at a Co Cork school after it emerged a planned new facility is unlikely to be ready until September 2017.

An action group set up by supporters of Gaelscoil de hIde, Fermoy, is planning another protest over the length of time it is taking to get a new school, and hopes to bring up to 1,000 people onto the streets.

A local councillor has claimed that it will take two more years before pupils can leave their current archaic classroom conditions for a state-of-the-art school.