Visiting the Dail this week St. John’s School (Students and Principal Brian Roche and staff) joined with the local Oireachtas members Deputy Catherine Callaghan, who organised the trip and Leas Cheann Comhairle John McGuinness TD to impress on Minister Helen McEntee T.D., Minister for Education, the urgent need to provide a new school at Ballybought Street in order to amalgamate St. John Junior and Senior schools.
“Both schools have increased numbers and recently the Department granted both DEIS status. “St John’s Parish is growing at a pace and requires a new amalgamated school to cope with the demands arising from this growth and the need to modernise the school infrastructure” said Deputy John McGuinness.
“A very high standard of education is being provided by both schools but the school community now deserves a state of the art educational facility to give the pupils of today and tomorrow the best possible chance of being well prepared for secondary school and their future prospects in further education and employment” concluded Deputy John McGuinness.
Deputy Callaghan gave her full support to the project and stated that she is “fully committed to the delivery of the new amalgamated school building.”
