Lack of national school is ‘undermining village’s future’

A long-serving county councillor has accused the Department of Education of turning its back on an east Cork village by failing to provide it with a national school.

Noel Collins said the village of Ballinacurra, 5km from Midleton, is “desperately in need” of a primary school to meet the demands of a large and increasing population.

Historically speaking, he said, the village was established hundreds of years before its near neighbour, a famed distillery town.