Council to urge authority to rethink Groarty/Na Daróige shared campus application
Derry City and Strabane District Council has agreed to write to the Education Authority to ask it to reconsider a recommendation to refuse a shared campus application jointly submitted by Groarty Integrated Primary and Gaelscoil Na Daróige in Ballymagroarty.
At the local authority's full council meeting on Thursday, Sinn Féin Councillor Eric McGinley moved: "That this Council writes to the Education Authority seeking a reversal of the decision not to support the shared campus application submitted by Groarty Integrated Primary School and Gaelscoil Na Daróige."
The motion was unanimously supported by nationalist and republican representatives while unionists abstained saying they would have required more information on the Education Authority's reasons for recommending refusal before committing.