There are hopes Frank Feighan's appointment as a junior minister will help to deliver a long-awaited school building for Carrick-on-Shannon - along with the appointment of a West of Ireland education minister, Hildegarde Naughton.
On Tuesday, Deputy Feighan, a Sligo-Leitrim TD, was appointed as a Minister of State at the Department of Public Expenditure and Infrastructure.
Scoil Mhuire in Carrick is struggling with overcrowding, after its pupil numbers doubled in the past decade.
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But it still hasn't been sanctioned a new school building.
Eoghan Murphy has been speaking to the chairman of the school's board of management, Malachy Molloy:
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