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Mercy and Presentation schools to amalgamate into super-school
New school to merge in 600-strong campus at Newtownsmith
BY MARY O'CONNOR Two girls' secondary schools in the city are to amalgamate in the next two years. The Presentation School and Meanscoil Mhuire (the Mercy) in Newtownsmith are to join forces, it was announced yesterday (Wednesday) by CEIST, the organisation responsible for the trusteeship of 112 Catholic secondary schools. The Presentation Secondary School which is located at Presentation Road caters for 270 girls while Meanscoil Mhuire has 308 girls on its books. The new school will be located on the Newtownsmith campus which has capacity for 600 students. The move is expected to take place in September 2011. The amalgamation of the schools will provide the "best possible educational opportunities" for girls from the areas served by the two existing schools, according to CEIST. The larger school will offer the broadest range of programmes and an enhanced level of subject choice, it says. As part of the move to a single campus the Department of Education and Science will refurbish existing facilities at Newtownsmith. "Both schools have a rich tradition of inclusiveness, of caring for the individual and providing excellence in education," said Anne Kelleher, the chief executive of CEIST. "Both have experienced a decline in enrolment over the last decade. CEIST has determined that the needs of young girls from this area will best be served by a single larger school which can offer the full range of programmes, a comprehensive curriculum, greater subject choice and improved access to foundation, ordinary and higher level classes." Mary Sweeney, the principal of Meanscoil Mhuire, said her school welcomed this move to bring both schools together on the same campus. "We have both served the girls of Galway with excellence over the years and we are both justly proud of our achievements. We look forward to building on these achievements together." -- Continued on Page Two

No need to be two tents -- the site of the tanks of the docks is slowly transfomred into the official village of the Volvo Ocean Race. The first two marquees were erected there this week and work is continuing as the city gets into the mood for the sail of the century -- the Volvo Ocean Race. Pic: Mike Shaughnessy

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Sleeping booty -- Thief pretends to be asleep
BY MARTINA NEE A Newcastle man who had been trespassing in a neighbour's house ran back upstairs, jumped into a bed, and pretended to be asleep when he saw gardai coming, the Galway District Court heard this week. Thirty-year-old Kenneth Murphy with an address at 244 Corrib Park, Newcastle, pleaded guilty last Monday to to entering a nearby house as a trespasser with intention to commit burglary on April 13, 2009. Inspector Sean Colleran told the court that at 2.10 am gardai received a call from the female owner of a house in Corrib Park who had seen a man on the premises. The defendant, who had been coming down the stairs, spotted the gardai arriving and he immediately ran straight back upstairs, went into a bed, and "pretended to be asleep". Defence solicitor Jarlath McInerney said that his client and wife had been out earlier for drinks as it had been Easter Sunday. He said that Murphy had been confused as a relative had lived in the property years ago and could have gained access as there had been a key left in the door. -- Continued on Page 2

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