Department reassures Limerick parents whose children were not offered school place

Under the Common Application System in Limerick, all secondary schools in Limerick City, Croom, and Pallaskenry make their offers together.
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.

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