Planning application error delays new school

Parents of children at a run-down school have expressed “bewilderment” at an error in a planning application which will lead to another setback in a long-running battle to construct a new building.

Gaelscoil de hÍde New School Action Group in Fermoy, Co Cork, had mounted a lengthy campaign to get a new facility to replace archaic, cramped, conditions which 410 pupils are enduring.

After many false dawns and taking to the streets in protest, they had eventually been informed recently that the Department of Education had given the green light to build a new school on a site transferred to the department by Cork County Council.