Meánscoileanna

pog it

Hey all.. I'm looking for any general information about the meánscoileanna.. like as in how many of them there are in each county, and where they get their teachers? I'd imagine it is very hard to find teachers that can teach the likes of Geography or Maths through Irish?
Also would there be as much Irish spoken in them as there is in the Gaelscoileanna?
What kind of funding do they get? They must be impossible to set up from scratch as they'd require huge amounts of funding? Beyond what a community could raise/get from the Dept. of Education (especially these days)

(Sorry 40 questions I know!)

Gael

Go to the gaelscoileanna website here and click on the post-primary schools tab at the top of the page and you'll get lists of them by province and county. As regards your other questions, maybe you should email gaelscoileanna themselves and they could probably enlighten you on the issues.

pog it

Thanks for that link Gael.

Makes for depressing reading. There are 9 counties in Ireland without a single meánscoil :eek:

In Connaught, 12 out of the 14 meánscoileanna are all in the Galway Gaeltacht.

Munster seem to be making the most progress though fair play, even in the non-Gaeltacht counties, but figures are still chronically low.