The North s Education Minister has acknowledged that students from a Post Primary School in Fermanagh which is closing may find their best option is to transfer across the border into schools in Donegal.
St Mary s School in Brollagh outside Belleek is to close, after numbers dropped to 67, a figure which Minister Peter Weir told the Assembly is unsustainable.
During a discussion on what happens next for the students, Fermanagh South Tyrone MLA Jemma Dolan, herself a past pupil of the school, said she has already been in contact with the Donegal ETB:
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AN IRISH Language Act (ILA) must be delivered in line with the commitments of the New Decade, New Approach (NDNA) Agreement, according to a local Sinn Féin MLA. On Monday, March 22, it was claimed on BBC Radio Ulster’s Nolan Show that the DUP would block the introduction of the ILA unless the NI Protocol was scrapped. The failure to bring in legislation around the Irish language was one of the main reasons powersharing collapsed in Northern Ireland. A commitment to introduce an act in the NDNA was central to the restoration of powersharing. Education Minister Peter Weir dismissed the claim and said the DUP was focused on powersharing, and that collapsing Stormont would be “counterproductive”.
Fermanagh South Tyrone MLA Rosemary Barton ULSTER Unionist MLA Rosemary Barton has welcomed the proposed guidance for the Union flag to be flown all year round in Northern Ireland (NI). Currently, Union flags in NI are only required to be flown on Government buildings on designated days, in line with UK policy. The Fermanagh South Tyrone MLA said: “I welcome the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport s [DCMS] proposals for the wider flying of the Union flag on UK government buildings, and I support the policy being extended to Northern Ireland. However, the Government will be judged by its actions rather than its words.
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