Minister for Education, Norma Foley visited Gaelscoil Lorgan in Castleblayney yesterday to confirm a brand new school on a green field site on the the Shercock Rd in the town.
The school which has 140 students enrolled is currently in an industrial estate and after years of campaigning for a new school, this €7.5 million announcement has been made.
Yesterdays visit by Minister Norma Foley and Minister Heather Humphreys along with Oireachtas colleagues, Deputy Matt Carthy and Niamh Smyth and local Councillors Aidan Campbell and Paul Gibbons was about celebrating contracts being signed to allow diggers on site in the next 6 weeks. The school opened in 2008 and they had no principal until 2009 and since then the popularity of the school has only gone one way.
According to Brendan O Dufaigh who is the chairman of Gaelscoil Lorgan, this is about preserving our native language and offering children an opportunity to be a Irish native speaker. Brendan says this has been along time coming but will be of huge benefit to the wider Castleblayney community for generations to come. Meanwhile, Gael Scoil Lorgan principal, Michelle Ui Mhairtin says this new school will enhance Castleblayney even further.
