Class act in Foxwood

A NEW national school now beckons for the hinterland around Foxwood in Cork’s Rochestown — about a decade after builders O’Brien and O’Flynn were made set aside land for one.

It was a planning condition at the time, but in the way things aren’t always all joined up in this country’s infrastructure and services, the Department of Education didn’t see the same necessity for quite a while

Now, though, with literally thousands of new houses flooded into the outer-suburban hinterland around Maryborough Hill/Garryduff/Rochestown, and many hundreds of children born in this part of the greater Douglas parish, there’s going to be a swift uptake on the new school’s roll books when it gets finished in the coming year.