Department reassures Limerick parents whose children were not offered school place

Fianna Fáil TD for Limerick City, Willie O’Dea, says parents devastated that their children had not secured a place in a secondary school. Picture: Gareth Chaney Collins
The Department of Education is working on contingency plans for 26 Limerick students who did not receive an offer of a secondary school place for the next academic year.
Efforts to accommodate the students are being made as other schools across the country have waiting lists for places for the 2023/24 academic year. The plight of 14 students who are without a space after failing to secure a place at Clonakilty Community College will be discussed next week at a routine meeting of the school’s board of management.