Folúntas: Gaelscoil Chill Mhantáin
Iúil 17, 2015
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Folúntas: Gaelscoil Lorgan, Muineachán
Iúil 17, 2015
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Folúntas: Gaelscoil Sáirséal, Luimneach
Iúil 17, 2015
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Community in crisis: Extra teacher vital to Inis Meáin – residents
Iúil 16, 2015
An island community off the west coast which has stood tall against grinding poverty, endless isolation, wild storms and mainland apathy for centuries could be gone in a decade for want of just €30,000 a year, a meeting in Dublin has heard.
The people of Inis Meáin booked a room in Buswell’s Hotel, the scene of so much political skulduggery since the foundation of the State, to make it clear to their elected representatives, on the last day before their long summer holidays, that they would not give up their way of life without a fight.
Changes made by the Department of Education to school staffing ratios mean that the only primary school on the island now has just one teacher. The rules say that to get a second teacher it needs 20 students and because the little schoolhouse on Inis Meáin can only muster nine it can only have one teacher.
That teacher’s name is Orlaith Breathnach. This year she will teach children aged four to 13. Four of her new students won’t have any Irish. One – who comes from Belarus – won’t speak Irish or English. All five new entrants are likely to need extra care and attention in the early days of the new term.
Breathnach will teach seven different classes, supervise all play times while struggling between 9am and 3pm to find a moment to get a toilet break or eat something. She also has to worry about what happens if she falls ill – something that obviously plays on the mind of a woman who only recently returned to work after an 18-month battle with cancer.
It is clear that she loves her job and her school but she knows the situation is unsustainable .
“The island is the ideal place to raise a family. It is safe and unspoiled but there is a vulnerability here too,” she said. “We are 20km from Rosaveal and we are often cut off from the mainland due to storms. An island community must have its own resources.”
As she said this, she eye-balled half a dozen politicians sitting opposite her. They included among their number the former minister for the Gaeltacht Joe McHugh and one of his predecessors, Eamon Ó Cuív. They all made sympathetic noises and nodded their heads wisely but there were no hard commitments forthcoming .
There were parents of young island children at the meeting too. They said they will have no choice but to leave to get adequate schooling for their children unless a second teacher is appointed. If that happens, it will mark the beginning of the end for a small but vibrant community of 150.
“The school is at death’s door. It’s like the department is saying to parents, we don’t care about your children. Just leave the island and go elsewhere,” said Ruairí de Blacam, a parent and business owner on the island. “It almost looks like there is a policy to starve our school into extinction.”
The island has reached a critical turning point, he said. “If we lose the primary school then we lose our younger people.”
People like him. But he doesn’t want to leave. He was born on the island and only left to train as a chef before returning to open a restaurant and hotel. If he is forced off the island to ensure his children – who are not yet of school-going age – can get an education, he will take eight jobs with him.
“I would have no other choice. I have to give my children a chance in life. If there is no school what else can I do? We spend millions teaching children all over the country Irish – many of whom say they have no interest in it.
“ Here we have a community who speak Irish and want to continue to speak it and for the sake of the 30 or 40 grand it would cost to employ a second teacher we are willing to push them over the edge.”
His outlook is bleak but not unrealistic. “There is a chance that in just 10 years time the island will be deserted save for holiday homes,” he says. “A community will have been destroyed. These things tend to snowball very quickly. You don’t have to be Nostradamus to work out what will happen if we lose the primary school. Do we want to be saying in 10 years that it is an awful pity that that community is gone? If only we had given them the extra teacher they needed.”
Pleananna tógala do scoil nua i Luimneach nochta
Iúil 16, 2015
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Folúntas: Léachtóir Comhlacha le Gaeilge, Coláiste Ollscoile Naomh Muire, Béal Feirste
Iúil 16, 2015
Tá foluntas poist do léachtóir comhlacha le Gaeilge i gColáiste ollscoile Naomh Muire, Céal Feirste.
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Construction plans for new Limerick schools unveiled
Iúil 16, 2015
A DECISION to give two primary schools the green light for construction in Mungret is expected to be made in the first week of September.
The Minister for Education and Skills submitted a planning application last Friday to construct a brand new campus for Gaelscoil an Ráithin and Limerick Educate Together, in Moneteen and Dromderrig, in Mungret.
According to the planning, the new campus will provide two two-storey buildings, a new access road, cycle storage, bin store, external storage buildings, ball courts, drop-off facilities and other site development works.
The two buildings will consist of 16 classrooms, expected to accommodate between 800 and 900 pupils in the two primary schools.
According to Minister Jan O’Sullivan who welcomed the planning, both schools need the new campus and that it is a “response to the needs of the schools”.
“In particular, the Educate Together one, it’s a sea of prefabs, really that’s what it is. There’s very little open space as well. So clearly they need better facilities for the children, and the same will be for the Gaelscoil. Again, where they are, they are lucky to be in rugby club [Garryowen RFC] for so long,” she said.
Councillor Daniel Butler said that the two “growing schools” are not in ideal conditions at the moment, and that the new campus will accommodate the young families in the Raheen and Dooradoyle area.
While Minister O’Sullivan expects construction to commence at the start of 2016 and for the campus to be ready by September 2016, she said that depends on having no planning delays.
Both the Minister and Cllr Butler have acknowledged that locals in the Mungret area have expressed concerns over traffic management and adequate road access to and from the proposed campus.
Cllr Butler said a lot of the plans will encourage parents and children to cycle and walk to school.
Mungret community council chairperson Nigel Mercier believes that adequate access to the school could take “several years” and that residents and commuters will have to deal with traffic chaos.
He added that parents and children will be travelling from distances and that walking may not be an option for those not living in the area.
“You’re talking about a Gaelscoil where they were up besides the Crescent Comprehensive, and I am sure there were a lot of people living up around there, and that there is absolutely no way that they are going to be walking and there is no public transport in Mungret. There is none. There is a bus in the morning and there is a bus in the evening. It’s very sporadic,” he said.
According to the application, there is expected to be 66 associated parking spaces between the two schools. However, Mr Mercier said that this will mean “people will be parking all over the place” at big events, such as parent-teacher meetings, sports days and open days.
Mr Mercier welcomed the plans to make developments in the area, but said that an “overall plan” needs to be put in place when construction is going ahead.
Minister O’Sullivan said that the council is looking at a “whole road network”.
“There has been engagement between the council and the Department around the issue of road access. There will be internal roads needed within the site to go to the schools.”
The Fine Gael councillor said that the traffic management issue is the only negative impact that he is concerned about.
“What we are looking at the moment is to stagger the starting times of the schools. Because just around the corner you have the Mungret National School so what we are looking at is possibly staggering all three starting times to alleviate all possible traffic, and that’s our only concern at the moment and how we are going to manage it.”
Folúntas: Scoil Iognáid, Co. na Gaillimhe
Iúil 15, 2015
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Folúntas: Pobalscoil Chorca Dhuibhne, Co. Ciarraí
Iúil 14, 2015
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Planning snag cleared on gaelscoil
Iúil 13, 2015
The new Gaelscoil Mhic Amhlaigh in Knocknacarra could be opened by the end of 2016, after a unanimous vote from councillors to set aside planning regulations.
The school, with a capacity for around 600 pupils, will be located on a 4.5 acre site opposite the Millar’s Lane football pitch on land which was purchased from NAMA.
It will become the replacement for the existing Gaelscoil Mhic Amhlaigh off the Cappagh Road – that school premises will then be taken over and run as an Educate Together national school. Because part of the site is on land zoned for industrial use, councillors were asked this week to vote on a Material Contravention of the City Development Plan to allow it proceed.
Recommending a vote in favour, the City Council’s Chief Executive, Brendan McGrath said: “Any proposal that would reduce the amount of land available in the Knocknacarra area for the location of enterprise or similar job creation opportunities should be considered seriously.
“However, in view of the small amount in the reduction of industrial zoned lands, the huge community benefit of a significant school project for the community, the potential value added to delivering the vision of the [Knocknacarra] District Centre, the sustainable benefits of the location and the likely visual and public realm improvements that can be delivered from the project, it is recommended that the members vote in favour of the resolution,” said Mr McGrath.
Local area councillor Donal Lyons said the existing gaelscoil has nearly doubled in size, with 480 pupils, and a previously plan to expand it from 12 to 16 classrooms was omitted from the national school-building scheme a number of years ago.
He said the new school will have 24 classrooms, a general purpose room, a server, a library and resource room and special education classrooms, as well as 36 parking spaces.
Part of the site will be used as a large grass play area, ball courts and an enclosed junior play area.
Cllr Lyons did concede the development will have traffic implications, as there will now be four schools “within a few hundred yards of each other” – the new gaelscoil, the Steiner and Educate Together schools in the adjacent Lisbrook House and Knocknacarra National School further along the Distributor Road.
Councillors voted unanimously in favour of the Material Contravention, allowing the development proceed.
