According to the draft local area plan, it could be located on lands zoned for social and community uses at and beside St Mary's Boys School in Summerhill.

The campaign has now passed the €40,000 mark with a final target of €100,000 for the new playing surface.

He says Carrigallen vocational and national schools are badly in need of extra space.

Many parents have struggled to try get their child a place on the bus to and from school.

County planners will decide on the issue in March.

The local teacher has represented Longford, Westmeath, Offaly, Kildare and Meath on the INTO Central Executive Committee.

The plans would see three classrooms and ancillary facilities developed on the site, with works also including essential repairs, internal alterations, replacement of the existing septic tank.

At an Oireachtas meeting, Senator Eugene Murphy outlined the staffing crisis at Keadue National School.