A massive education facility, bringing together post-primary schools from different sectors, is to be built on the site of a former military barracks in Omagh, Co Tyrone. It is expected that six schools will relocate.
The town’s only integrated post-primary school, Drumragh College, moved into its own
£22.5 million building recently, however. Drumragh is oversubscribed and wants to increase its pupil numbers by 30 per cent to meet parental demand.
An official request to increase numbers has been rejected by the North’s education minister John O’Dowd – a decision the school says it disagrees with fundamentally. Principal Nigel Frith says one of the reasons for the minister’s rejection is that Drumragh only received its new building in 2009. Before having new accommodation built, the school spent 10 years in a former psychiatric hospital.
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