Educate Together raises concerns with department amid parents dismay over plans to move school
Labour TD Ged Nash told the Daíl this week that the planned move was a “ridiculous, wrong-headed decision [that] needs to be overturned”. By Sean Murray Sunday 7 Feb 2021, 6:45 AM Feb 7th 2021, 6:45 AM 51,814 Views 18 Comments
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THE NATIONAL OFFICE of Educate Together has said it is working with the Department of Education to find a suitable solution, after parents and school leaders expressed their dismay at plans to move the Drogheda Educate Together to a new location.
The organisation said it has also called for a cross-departmental review of the wider planning processes around school buildings and sites to try to provide more certainty to schools, parents and c
Parents dismayed over ridiculous decision to move Drogheda Educate Together school for third time
The school is being moved from east Meath to the grounds of St Oliver’s in Drogheda. By Sean Murray Thursday 4 Feb 2021, 5:01 PM Feb 4th 2021, 5:01 PM 19,162 Views 10 Comments
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PARENTS HAVE EXPRESSED their dismay at plans to relocate the Drogheda Educate Together school, which has been described by local TDs as a “ridiculous decision”.
The school is currently located on Mill Street outside Drogheda in east Meath, but the new plans ratified by the Louth and Meath Education and Training Board (LMETB) will see it moved to the grounds of St Oliver’s Community College in the town.
A new developer-led stretch of road, an extension of the road into the IDA Park on the Donore Road and exiting around Sheephouse, would transform traffic on the overstretched Rathmullen Road.
That s the proposal Cllr Paddy Meade put to fellow councillors at last week s special planning meeting in relation to the new Meath Co Development Plan.
It is now likely the proposal will form part of the Transport Strategy report presently about to commence between Meath and Louth County Councils.
Cllr Meade said the new road would service the likes of St Oliver s Community College and all the residents in that area.