PUBLIC MEETING IN FIGHT FOR CLIFDEN SCHOOL

Date Published: 02-Apr-2012

A public meeting will be held in Clifden tonight as part of a fight to get plans for a new secondary school back on track with the Department of Education.

All locally elected political representatives have committed to attend the meeting at 8pm at Scoil Pobal, Clifden, which is organised by local protest group CSI: Clifden, or the Community School Initiative campaign group.

Plans for the new community school building in Clifden were well under way when the Department of Education decided to sideline the project, ommitting the school from its five-year building plan, published last month.

The school was oringially built 35 years ago to cater for 250 students, but the build was never completed, because the contractor went out of business during construction.

Today, there are more than 400 students in the school and classes have been taught in portacabins for the past 30 years.

Simon Boote, secretary of CSI: Clifden urges local people to come along to tonight’s meeting as the school is hugely to the Connemara region.