On Monday 29th Sept, Minister O’Keeffe announced 25 major new school building projects.
One of these projects, which is to prepare to go to site before the end of 2008, is the construction of a new school, PE hall and autistic unit - 4,843m² to cater for 400 students at Athy community College.
The campus will contain state of the art facilities with a PE hall, lecture theatre, playing fields, technology and computer rooms and will completed within 18 months.