Take a peek inside Ireland’s soon-to-be largest Gaelscoil
Construction of Coláiste an Phiarsaigh's upcoming expansion will see the school become carbon neutral.
Fifty years ago, almost to the day, in September 1973, Cork’s Coláiste an Phiarsaigh was first established with incredibly humble beginnings. Without even a school building to call their own, so it was that 20 students and six teachers gathered together in Glanmire and started classes in their local Protestant Church — where they persevered in their makeshift classroom until the Department of Education granted them a premises in 1978.
