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MINISTER Sile De Valera met with protest at the monument of her grandfather on Satur- day, as the Fianna Fail ODUM UE DIOOUMUD Mme lM ales Rere| in Ennis, to commemo- rate the party’s found- ing father, Eamonn De Valera.
After the ‘Taoiseach Bertie Ahern laid a wreath at the monu- ment outside the court- house, to mark the 30th anniversary of De Valera’s death, a group of parents and pupils from a Limerick school demanded a meeting with the junior minister responsible for school transport.
The parents are seeking a school bus to take their children to the Salesian Col- lege, Pallaskenry. They were told there was no room for them in city
schools.
The minister told re- porters that the protest had nothing to do with the school safety bus issue, a point echoed by the Taoiseach. Mr Ahern said between now and the end of his year, all second level school buses would have a seat and a belt for each student and by the end of next year every junior school bus would have the same.
The Taoiseach was invited to Ennis by Clare Ogra Fianna Fail to mark the 30th anni- versary of De Valera’s olor hdee
“Three decades on from the passing of this giant of modern Irish history, it is not only appropriate, but also important, that we re- flect on his great serv- ice to our nation and draw inspiration from it,” he said.