Parents 'beyond frustrated' by delays to school building projects in East Cork

Education Minister Norma Foley said the school building project in Carrigtwohill is included in a bundle of projects tendered to the newly established design and build contractors framework

Carrigtwohill Community College is currently housed in temporary accommodation. Picture: Eddie O'Hare

The tenders for a number of significant school building projects, including several to address a shortage of places in East Cork, will not be awarded until the first quarter of next year.

Tenders advertised this summer for a new school building for Carrigtwohill Community College and two new 24-classroom primary schools on the same campus — Scoil Mhuire Naofa, which caters for boys, and the co-ed Scoil Chliodhna.