Junior certs collect their results this morning
Over three thousand six hundred pupils at schools in the North West are among those getting their Junior Cert results this morning. Over 2400 students in county Donegal, over 700 in county Sligo and 480 pupils in county Leitrim sat the exams. The overall numbers nationally increased by 2.3% on…
Bus seats now available for Collooney pupils attending Coola school
Bus Eireann has made seats available to five families in Collooney who were at risk of having no way for their children to get to school. The situation affected at least five families with concessionary bus tickets to Coola Post-primary school. Sinn Fein Councillor Thomas Healy has welcomed the move…
Scanlon: Uncertainty remains over future of some school bus services
A Sligo/Leitrim Fianna Fail deputy says the future of some school bus routes in the region still remain unclear. Deputy Eamon Scanlon says that’s despite Minister of State John Halligan saying he had relaxed the rule about a minimum of 10 pupils needed to maintain a bus service to a…
Sligo County Council have applied for funding to improve safety at Ballymote secondary school
Sligo County Council has applied for funding to help increase safety at a secondary school in Ballymote. Fianna Fail Councillor Keith Henry says the entrance to Colaiste Mhuire is too narrow and visibility is also severely reduced for cars coming out of the school. At a recent Council meeting, Director…
South Sligo school gets funding for extension
A national school in Sligo has been allocated funding for an extension. St. Ronan’s National School in Cloonloo has been given funding by the Department of Education to build a new special education teacher support room. Senator Frank Feighan says that ‘projects such as these help to stimulate economic activity…
Fears strike could soon hit school buses
A West of Ireland TD says school buses will be affected very soon if some kind of a resolution is not found to the bus strike. The strike is now in its 5th day with unions not happy with the plans for cost-cutting at the company while Bus Eireann says…