Media Coverage

Newspaper Articles

New Gaelscoil Philib Barún (Munster Express, 29 May 2009)
Gael Scoil (Munster Express, 29 May 2009)
Kenny promises end to pre-fabs (Waterford News & Star, 19 May 2009)
Tramore Community News features Coast Guard Exhibition (Waterford News & Star, 19 May 2009)
Tramore Coastguard Station - a hive of activity (Munster Express, 15 May 2009)
Gaelscoil exhibition for Tramore’s Coast Guard Station (Munster Express, 1 May 2009)
Prefabs cost some schools more than €100k (RTÉ News, 10 April 2009)
Big Attendance at Tramore Gaelscoil Information Meeting (Munster Express, 6 March 2009)
Community initiative to cut through red tape for new school (Waterford News & Star, 4 March 2009)
Frustrated Gaelscoil Management Board going it alone (Munster Express, 20 February 2009)
€1m spend yet pupils still in ‘rented boxes’ (Waterford News & Star, 18 February 2009)
Ignored Tramore a ‘prefab township’ blasts Principal (Munster Express, 16 October 2008)
Extension to Gaelscoil Philib Barún slotted into place (Munster Express, 9 May 2008)
Waterford City’s first all-Irish Secondary School (Munster Express, 17 April 2008)
Cost of renting school prefabs to be ‘reviewed’ (Waterford News & Star, 4 May 2007)
Money wasted on renting out prefab classes (Waterford News & Star, 26 April 2007)
Waterford on course for an All-Irish Secondary School (Waterford News & Star, 23 June 2006)
Gaelscoil Philib Barún Looking To New Horizons (Waterford News & Star, 17 January 2003)
New Gaelscoil for Tramore (Waterford News & Star, 17 August 2001)

Television Articles

Prefab Buildings Come at a Cost (Prime Time, RTÉ, 10 March 2009)

Radio Articles

Government spend €50 million renting school prefabs (Today with Pat Kenny, RTÉ Radio 1, 3 March 2009)

Other Articles

Dept will spend €386m - O’Keeffe (RTÉ News, 8 October 2009)
Doherty reveals staggering cost of prefabs in schools across the state (Sinn Féin, 13 May 2009)
Seanad Éireann Question by Paudie Coffey (Seanad Éireann, Volume 188, 20 March 2008)