School with no pupils closes doors -- seven weeks into term [Independent.ie]
- Published: 16 November 2011
FOR the past seven weeks school principal Denis O'Sullivan has turned up in his classroom from Monday to Friday.
The only problem was when he reached the school building and unlocked the doors there were no pupils there to greet him. The bizarre situation had arisen at Scoil Mhuire National School in Clonkeen, Co Kerry, where no pupils had enrolled for the current academic year.
And although the Department of Education and Skills was very much aware of the situation in advance, it didn't close the school and Mr O'Sullivan was not placed, as expected, on a panel of teachers for transfer.
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