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Harris criticises Department of Education as families left without school places

Minister Simon Harris has criticised the Department of Education for putting “utterly unacceptable” stress on families left without school places. He said the department needs to get “much better” at forward planning for identifiable population ...

09 Feb 2024 at 14:17

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Parents are crying over the phone while discussing school access — Kildare councillor

Parents have become so stressed worrying about securing school places for their children that they have broken down crying over the phone. The claim was made by Independent councillor Pádraig McEvoy at the latest Clane-Maynooth Municipal ...

06 Jun 2023 at 19:30

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‘A huge problem still’: Local representatives highlight lack of Kildare school places

A number of local representatives in County Kildare have acknowledged that there is a severe lack of school places in the county. It follows the release of a new survey by the Irish Primary Principals Network, which found that Kildare ...

29 Nov 2022 at 13:00

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Senator calls meeting with Minister Foley on school place issues in South Kildare

A Senator has called meeting with Minister for Education Norma Foley in relation to school place issues in South Kildare. Fianna Fáil Senator Fiona O' Loughlin made the announcement has called the meeting, along with the Principal of ...

07 Dec 2022 at 14:00

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'Get your act together' - Parents and staff demand 'vital' school places for children with special needs

Parents of children with additional needs have spoken about how they are at their wits’ end on how to secure school places for this academic year. SNAs (special needs assistants), activists, parents and their children marched from ...

23 Aug 2024 at 16:45

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New Naas school could be open by September 2017

Contingency plans will be put in place to accommodate second level students seeking a place in the new Naas second level school — if it doesn’t open next year. Naas Community School principal Ciaran Keegan is confident that all ...

26 May 2016 at 18:04

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Desperate Newbridge mum pleads for school place for autistic son

A Newbridge mum has mounted a campaign to secure a school place for her six year-old autistic son. Emma Stowe has been told by every school she has contacted that there is no place for her son Leon and he has been put on ...

12 May 2016 at 13:50

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Newbridge mum's nightmare over lack of school place for autistic son

“It’s an absolute nightmare. We are in July now and still nothing, we have no school place for Daragh. He is in a preschool for children with autism and he could stay another year, but he will be five in December and ...

13 Jul 2016 at 15:49

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Still no school place for autistic six-year-old from Newbridge

The devastated mum of a six year-old autistic Newbridge boy has been forced to apply for a home tutor because he was unable to get a school place this year. “This is the only option we have. It’s not ideal because I ...

14 Sept 2016 at 12:06

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Warnings of shortfall in Kildare school places in the coming years

A newly elected Kildare TD has called for major forward planning in Kildare to avoid a significant shortfall in school places over the coming years. Social Democrats TD Aidan Farrelly says the ongoing rapid ...

13 Feb 2025 at 10:30

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Assurances given in Dáil on Kildare school places

A Kildare North TD has asked the Minister for Education of her plans to address the issue of school place shortages in Kildare. Deputy Aidan Farrelly (SD) tabled his question in the Dáil recently. In her ...

06 Mar 2025 at 17:00

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