Slow pace of reform - Delays are threatening our future

EARLIER this week the plight of Glenville National School was highlighted where, just like the situation in hundreds of other communities across the country, the local school is no longer capable of providing the service it, and everyone involved with it, would wish.

This is despite receiving a promise a decade ago that a new school would be built. That good news was confirmed through the “personal assurance” of Education Minister Mary Hanafin in 2006, she wrote promising work would begin with “immediate effect”.

Nothing has happened.