Work to start on new Kells school next year

Work will start on the long-awaited new school building for Eureka Secondary School in Kells next year. 
The new school will accommodate 800 students and construction on a site on the Cavan Road is set to start in the summer of 2016, with the building expected to be ready for occupation by the second half of 2017.
Building firm Inspired Spaces Consortium has been appointed to deliver the new building under a public private partnership model (PPP).
School principal Caroline O’Reilly said staff and students are delighted the building will finally be going ahead.
“There is great excitement here. It will be a purpose-built facility with a full-size PE hall, science labs, kitchens, technology and art rooms, computer room and all the necessarily facilities, including playing fields,” she said.

The site for the new school had been the subject of controversy for many years with sharp divisions among councillors over whether it should be sited on the Cavan Road on land acquired through the Redress Board or on land adjacent to the current school, St Ciaran’s Community College and the primary school.