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The 2023/2024 school year will forever be remembered as a truly momentous one in the history of education in North Clare. Last September, after a combined total of some 360 years of education, staff and students from the Ennistymon CBS, Scoil Mhuire Ennistymon and the Ennistymon Vocational School finally came together to form the long awaited Ennistymon Community School. This new school, decades in the making, now boasts some 700 students, state of the art classrooms, a fully-sized PE Hall and an amphitheater, and with more than 90 teachers and staff it is also one of the single biggest employers in North Clare. While it took until Easter to get all staff and students together in the same building, the spirit of the Ennistymon Community School has been building for years. “It is a bit surreal to have us all under the same roof. It is incredible, after so many years, that now we have outstanding facilities and the newest …
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