Plans to co-locate schools in Cork town as search for site continues

The plan is for the Le Chéile Secondary School to be temporarily placed on a grassed area behind main playing pitch of Ballincollig Community School

In 2020, the department announced Le Chéile Trust as the patron of the new 1,000-pupil co-ed secondary school in Ballincollig but it has yet to secure a permanent site for the school.

A secondary school which opened in temporary accommodation last year may be co-located on the grounds of another secondary school in the same town while the search for its permanent home goes on.

The Department of Education has drawn up plans to relocate the Le Chéile Secondary School, which opened last September in the former Cork Film Centre premises in Ballincollig, Cork, to the campus of Ballincollig Community School (BCS).