Parents of children attending Cloughduv National School are continuing to protest outside the school on a daily basis over the loss of a teacher.

The school recently lost a teacher who was on a temporary development post because it was three short of a projected enrolment of 169 by September 30th due to a delay in families moving into new homes.

The Department of Education told The Southern Star last weeks that the school appealed the decision but did not have sufficient enrolments before Christmas and the decision of the Board was to not grant the appeal post.

‘The staffing of Cloughduv National School will remain as was during the 2024/25 school year. The provisional post granted was not an additional post, not one the school already had.’

Social Democrats leader Holly Cairns said the Department of Education ‘inflexibility’ negatively impacts schools and communities.

She said she had written to the Minister for Education asking for the ‘short-sighted and wrong’ decision to be reversed in light of the fact that the school is expected to have the enrolment of 180 in coming weeks.