Gaelscoil release balloons to signify 12-year wait
May 10, 2012
Staff and students from Gaelscoil Mhic Amhlaigh, Knocknacarra will stage a protest event in Galway City this Saturday, 12 May, when they will release 12 balloons to signify their 12-year wait for a school extension. The school was excluded from the Government’s five-year capital investment programme announced in March.
Saturday’s event will start at Eyre Square at 11.15 am and finish at 12noon near Griffin’s Bakery on Shop Street. The event will feature 16 children’s pop-up tents, eight of which will represent the eight portacabins in which students are being educated. The event will also feature lots of balloons, a ringmaster and snake banners.
Gaelscoil Mhic Amhlaigh has been campaigning for a school extension since 2000 and plans to replace the eight portacabins in which over 200 children are being educated has full planning permission and includes the provision of a Naíonra for which over €330,000 has been raised locally.
GALWAY INDEPENDENT
