Taoiseach calls for 'full and comprehensive consultation' over Cork schoolsamalgamation plan

The location of the new school will be the existing site of the North Presentation school in Faranree, with the school itself becoming co-educational from next September. File picture via Twitter
Taoiseach Micheál Martin has called for a “full and comprehensive consultation” over a controversial merger of two secondary schools in Cork city.
Speaking in the Dáil on Wednesday, Mr Martin was responding to calls from local TDs who are demanding a pause to the merger of St. Vincent's Secondary School and North Presentation Secondary School, on the north side of Cork city.