The first sod has been turned at the site of a new eight-classroom school at Scoil Phádraig Naofa in Athy, County Kildare.
Scoil Phádraig Naofa will be located on a 15-acre site in Athy. The plan for the site will allow up to four primary schools to be located on the one campus.
Phase One, a new eight-classroom building for Scoil Átha Í, was completed in 2008. Scoil Phádraig Naofa is located in this new eight-classroom school, according to Build.ie. Phase Two of the plan will deliver a second eight-classroom school in early October into which Scoil Phádraig Naofa will move.
A new Rapid Access Clinic to ensure early diagnosis of prostate cancer is to open in Galway.
The service is one of two schemes being piloted at St James's Hospital in Dublin and University Hospital Galway, reports RTE.
The National Cancer Control Programme says the service will be available nationally at all designated cancer clinics within 12 months.
Public consultation is to be held on a proposed bypass for County Sligo.
The county council's Sligo and Environs Development Plan identified the need for a Western By-pass in Sligo city, reports Build.ie.
At meetings of Sligo County Council in May 2008 and November 2008 it was resolved that a Western/City Bypass should be located west of Second Sea Road.
The first sod has been turned at the site of a new eight-classroom school at Scoil Phádraig Naofa in Athy, County Kildare.
