The parents’ committee of Gaelscoil Uileog de Búrca is organising an entry in next week’s St Patrick’s Day parade in Claremorris as part of their campaign to highlight the fact that the Gaelscoil is 11 years waiting for a new school and needs it now.
The Department of Education sanctioned a new school in 1998, but Gaelscoil Uileog de Búrca has been waiting 11 years now for the promised new school. All children are now being taught in prefabs are at a cost of €75,000 a year.
The school currently has 116 children and enrolment is growing each year, which means more prefabs will have to be purchased until a new school is built. The Minister for Education wrote to the school informing them that it would be an eight-classroom school but no time scale was given. So 11 years after sanctioning they are still waiting.
The students of the school will march in the Claremorris St Patrick’s Day parade, dressed in high visibility jackets and builders’ props and each child has decorated their own message “Tógaíl don Todhchaí” (building for our future ).
