Pupils and parents protesting at lack of school warden to cause traffic chaos in Cork 

Parents and children to spend 20 minutes every school morning walking back and forth across the pedestrian crossing outside the school gate amid concerns over cars driving through as children cross

The pedestrian crossing on Grattan St outside the Educate Together National School. There have been several near misses between children and vehicles on the pedestrian crossing, with motorists driving through as children cross. Picture: Larry Cummins.

A Cork City school denied a school warden has asked the Ombudsman for Children to intervene as it announces plans for protests which could cause gridlock.

The board of management of the Cork Educate Together NS on Grattan St has written to the Ombudsman’s office requesting an investigation into why its request for a school warden was rejected in the context of a policy which reserves warden assessments for schools which already have a warden.