Cork school hopes for green light after seven-year wait for planning

Educate Together secondary school has been housed in temporary accommodation since 2015

At their temporary premises on the Griffith College campus on Wellington Road, Principal of Cork Educate Together Secondary School Colm O'Connor, pupils and staff looking forward to their new school in Douglas, for which the Department of Education has lodged a planning application. Picture Dan Linehan

The nervous wait is almost over for Cork Educate Together Secondary School which expects to receive a long-awaited planning decision on its permanent school building on Monday.

The school, the first of its kind to open outside of the Greater Dublin area, has been housed in temporary accommodation since it opened seven years ago.