On Air Now

K Drive

3:00pm - 7:00pm

  • 045 901 490
  • 0833-979797

Now Playing

Benson Boone

Sorry I'm Here For Someone Else

Doubling In Size Of Kildare Primary School Approved.

File image: Junior Infants classroom/RollingNews

Scoil Mhichil Naofa will add 12 classrooms.

The doubling in size of a Kildare school is moving a step closer.

Education Minister, Norma Foley, has confirmed that Scoil Mhichil Naofa has received approval to proceed to tender on the construction of 12 new classrooms, and the renovation of their existing rooms.

The school is to grow to a 28 classroom facility.

The school currently caters to 565, and the expansion will allow the intake, potentially, of several hundred additionals students.

Kildare Senator Fiona O’Loughlin has welcomed the announcement  and says “I regularly raise the issue of school place capacity in South Kildare with Minister Foley and her officials, and I am pleased to see this project moving forward. It is a huge endorsement of the teachers, staff and whole school community at Scoil Mhichil Naofa.”

More from Local News

Stay tuned to Kfm!

Get the Kfm Apps for you phone, tablet or smart speaker...

Kfm Kildare Weather

  • Thu

    Heavy Rain

    19°C

  • Fri

    Heavy rain shower

    20°C

  • Sat

    Heavy Rain

    18°C

  • Sun

    Heavy rain shower

    19°C

  • Mon

    Sunny intervals

    21°C