'I’m completely heartbroken': students feel ignored over planned amalgamation of Cork schools

'We’re all being forced into the one school, co-educational, when we clearly don’t want to be'

Having a break in the sensory garden at St Vincents Secondary School were student council members Ella Okpe, Eilis Hickey, Ava Hayes, Bailey Sheehan and Laila Abdelnapy. Picture: Denis Boyle

Cork students at a soon-to-be amalgamated secondary school on the northside of the city want to know why their school looks set to close. 

St Vincent’s and North Presentation secondary schools are set to close at the end of this school year, and a newly amalgamated, co-educational school will open its doors for the academic year of 2023/2024.