New school is great – pity about the access

YOUR report (February 15) highlighting the unsafe entry to St Colman’s Boys’ National School in Macroom, Co Cork, prompts me to write about my recent visit to the school.

As a former English secondary school principal who recently returned to live in Ireland, I have taken a keen interest in the conditions of Irish schools.

In many cases I have been appalled at the poor conditions that I have encountered.