Admissions policy is a threat to five schools

I REFER to your report on the admissions policy of Gorey Community School in Co Wexford (Irish Examiner, March 4).

Because of an overcrowding and accommodation problem, the Department of Education has decided to establish a catchment which excludes five national schools in Co Wexford - Coolgreany, Monaseed, Ballyfadd, Ballygarrett and Monamolin.

This catchment area was created in the 1950s but has not been implemented - so much so that the five affected schools assumed they were all part of the Gorey catchment area (as assumed by the school itself for three of the five of them).