O’Dowd banking on Donegal students to keep tiny border secondary off ‘the green mile…’?
So good news for the people of Belleek. St Mary’s High School in Brollagh, near the village on the Fermanagh border have a reprieve from closure. The tiny secondary school has just 121 students, and attracts about half the pupils transferring from nearby primary schools. From the BBC report: Simon Bradley, the acting principal of the school, said the news it would not be closed came as a shock. “I think, like most people within the education community, were quite stunned …