THE parents at a primary school in Malin, Co Donegal, have withdrawn their 159 children indefinitely in protest at what they say is a 25-year delay in providing a school extension.
The children were withdrawn on Tuesday from Scoil Cholm Cille at Ballymena, near Malin, after a parents' meeting.
A committee spokeswoman, Ms Maria McLaughlin, said what had outraged the parents and the board of management most was that a two-classroom extension "guaranteed" by the Department of Education in March 1995 had been "shelved" earlier this month and the Department had offered a much smaller one-classroom extension instead.
She said a two-classroom and general purposes room extension had been promised as long ago as 1972. The school now consists of four permanent classrooms and two prefabs.
The INTO general secretary, Senator Joe O'Toole, supporting the parents' action, said the school was overcrowded and unsafe.