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SEAPOINT College in Kinvara is to close in June of 2012 but first year students will be admitted next year, it emerged over the weekend.
After a week of contradictory re- ports concerning the future of the school, the RESCUE Seamount eroup released a statement on behalf of the Seamount Board of Manage- ment on Saturday evening.
“The Board of Management of Seamount College can confirm that the Mercy Trustees have agreed to
accept first year girls at the school in September 2007 on a five year cycle,’ said a spokeswoman from RESCUE.
“The trustees authorised this intake of students on the clear understand- ing that the school will close in June 2012. The students who wish to en- roll in Kinvara this September will not have transition year option avail- able to them. The Board of Manage- ment welcomes this decision by the Trustees.”
The validity of an agreement for the staged closure of Seamount and the
construction on a new school came into serious doubt when an argument erupted between the Sisters of Mercy and the Department of Education last week over the timetable for the school’s closure.
The nuns had agreed to take in first year students next year, but only if the Department of Education guar- anteed a new school would be com- pleted before 2010.
When this commitment was deemed impossible by the depart- ment the entire agreement looked set to collapse.