New school for Crookstown welcomed

Part of €100m programmeCrookstown is to get a new school in a new€100m Government programme which will see 28 new schools around the country.

The move has been welcomed by Kildare South TD Martin Heydon, who is a past pupil of Crookstown NS.

“The granting of planning permission for this new school last September and the subsequent funding for a rising sewage main from the Department of the Environment this year all gave impetus to the project,” he says. "A lot of work has been put in by many hardworking people including  principal Nuala Costello and the Board of Management led by their dedicated chair David O'Grady."

The 28 schools are in addition to the 275 major school building projects announced in March 2012 under the Government's Five Year Plan. They were approved last week by Cabinet as part of the Investment for Jobs.