CLASS OF 2018: The 142 first year students who began at Coachford College last weekRural Ireland may be on its last legs but this school’s alive and kickingRURAL Ireland’s dead and gone, it’s with O’Leary in the grave. Rural post offices, too, are going the way of O’Leary. A dozen are set to close in County Cork, among them my own local post office in Carrigadrohid in mid-Cork. By rights, my local secondary school, Coachford College, should be experiencing declining numbers, given its rural location and sparse local population, but it isn’t. So, why is Coachford College proving so popular?

Source: Evening echo September 08, 2018 11:26 UTC