At last, an Irish secondary school for south Dublin – Mitchell

“I have been pursuing this issue with successive governments as a gaelcholáiste has been sought for many years to serve the growing number of pupils from the south Dublin primary level gaelscoileanna.  And indeed the number of gaelscoileanna has itself been increasing in the area in recent years.  This announcement will be well received by the 46 students and their parents registered to start in the school next September.

 

“The choice of the old Loreto Abbey not only provides an instant solution allowing pupils to immediately have access to a permanent building but it also provides an appropriate use for a site with a long educational tradition which might otherwise remain unused and ultimately derelict.  A location such as this will allow for the development of a modern school providing a range of facilities to the approximately 400 students that will ultimately attend the school. “