PARENTS OF CHILDREN attending the North Monastery Primary School in Cork known as the North Mon are hoping that a breakthrough could occur soon in their battle to save their school.

Eight hundred parents are reported to have taken to the streets on Saturday in Cork in protest against proposed changes that would see the boys primary school amalgamate with a separate girls school.

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The schools in question are the boys primary school Scoil Mhuire Fatima North Monastery Primary School, known as North Mon and St Vincents, a girls primary school. The Edmund Rice Schools Trust (ERST) issued a statement saying

"The school is of course for its pupils present and future and so the opinions of parents, staff and others concerned is hugely important.

As Trustees, we have no wish to oppose the expressed will of those for whom the school is a part of their lives. We are therefore withdrawing this proposal for Scoil Mhuire Fatima at this time.

The Edmund Rice Schools Trust continues to be concerned about the falling enrolment in Scoil Mhuire Fatima and the effect this will have on the school."

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