Ennis school parents protest

Parents, teachers and pupils from a gaelscoil in Ennis, Co Clare, will protest outside the Dail tomorrow at being left out of…

Parents, teachers and pupils from a gaelscoil in Ennis, Co Clare, will protest outside the Dail tomorrow at being left out of this year's primary school building programme.

Parents at Scoil Mhichil Ciosog - whose 187 pupils are still housed in a prefab 11 years after the school's foundation - say they received a letter from the Department of Education, last October telling them the school was now ready to go to tender.

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