Pupils at firetrap school for 6 years

More than 200 primary students were attending a school for six years before it was discovered it was a serious fire hazard, the Irish Examiner has learned.

The school in north Dublin was signed off on by the Fianna Fáil-led government of the time in 2008. However, a routine inspection in 2014 found it had so many fire safety concerns it could have collapsed during a blaze in just 20 minutes.

Once the defects were uncovered at the Rush and Lusk Educate Together national school, the Dublin Fire Brigade ordered the Department of Education to make immediate repairs costing more than €800,000 to make the building safe.