Hundreds of East Cork students celebrate moving into new €40m campus

The new campus has been described as one of the single most ambitious projects ever undertaken by the department
Hundreds of East Cork students celebrate moving into new €40m campus

Principal Lorna Dundon cutting the ribbon along with staff members, students and friends, at the opening of the new Carrigtwohill Community College campus, Co Cork. Picture: David Keane

From a business park to a state-of-the-art school building — hundreds of East Cork students were celebrating on Thursday as they moved into their new €40m campus, hailed as one of the single-most ambitious education projects ever undertaken by the Department of Education.

After more than 20-years of campaigning, and eight years in a business park unit, it was all smiles on Thursday morning as parents of students of Carrigtwohill Community College watched them parade into their new permanent purpose-built school building for the first classes.

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