Cork Education & Training Board to run new special school

The school will be located on an interim basis in Rochestown in a premises which will become available in early 2023.

Education Minister Norma Foley: 'The establishment of this school is of massive importance to the Cork area.' Picture: Jim Coughlan

A new special school in Cork will open under the patronage of Cork Education and Training Board, Education Minister Norma Foley has announced.

Ms Foley and Josepha Madigan, the minister of State for special education and inclusion, confirmed that the new special school in Rochestown will provide places to those students who do not yet have an offer of a special school place for September, as a priority.