Parents protest over lack of spaces at special school

Calls for the National Council of Special Education and the Department of Education to sanction modular classes for September

Students from West Waterford, Cork, and South Tipperary are waiting for spaces at St John’s Special School in Dungarvan. File picture: Danny Lawson/PA Wire

Parents took to the streets of a Waterford town on Wednesday as part of a peaceful protest to highlight the 20 families waiting for spaces in the special school.

As previously reported by the Irish Examiner, students from West Waterford, Cork, and South Tipperary are waiting for spaces at St John’s Special School in Dungarvan.