Parents told school will open despite court challenge

Parents have been assured that a new primary school will open in a town in east Cork this autumn despite a legal challenge over who should run it.

Cork Education and Training Board (ETB) is scheduled to welcome infants to a new multidenominational school in Carrigtwohill on Monday.

Uncertainty has been created by a challenge, heard last week in the High Court, to the process by which the Department of Education chose Cork ETB as patron.