€5m new school building for Athlone

The principal of Coosan National School has admitted there has been excitement in the community this week, with the news a new primary school is begin construction this may

It was confirmed this week that preliminary building work on the new €5-million, 16-classroom school is to begin in May, and is expected to take up to 90 weeks to complete

The school currently caters for over 390 pupils from the Coosan catchment area and the new school will provide a GP room for the first time for students to exercise indoors.

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Tom Flahive told Shannonside FM there is a lot of preparation work to be done in the coming weeks.