Students and staff at Creagh College, on the outskirts of Gorey, got great news today, after it was announced that funding had been provided and the first sod was turned on the new Creagh College.

The news was broken on the school website. It read; “Today marks a great and historic day for Creagh College. Construction work has begun on our new state-of-the-art College campus, due to be operational for September 2014.”

The Bank of Ireland and the European Investment Bank announced that it had funded the development of a new school a Creagh, as part of an eight-school Public Private Partnership (PPP) project for which contracts were signed recently.

Creagh is part of a €100 million investment in new schools across the country and construction will start immediately.

The schools will be constructed by BAM Building Ltd based in Kill, Co. Kildare, and all schools are expected to be completed by 2014.

The College website gave details of the various facilities which include two/three stories, five science laboratories, two lecture rooms, six basketball courts, full sized pitches for Gaelic games, rugby and soccer, and two five-a-side soccer pitches.

“Our current building is a temporary home and we will be moving to a new modern, purpose-built College in September 2014.

Millions of euro will be invested in the new Creagh College Campus which has been designed to motivate and inspire our students.

The post-primary school experience for this generation of learners will be transformed.”

Creagh College is a co-educational, multi-denominational post-primary college under the patronage of Co. Wexford Vocational Educational Committee.