South Donegal National School to launch new Breakfast Club for September 2026

A South Donegal National School, which has held public meetings regarding its future, has launched a new Breakfast Club, which is to operate from September 2026.

Fintra National School, a co-educational Catholic primary school located around two miles from Killybegs, will offer a Breakfast Club, preschool and afterschool from September 26, with interested parties asked to contact the school by March 26. 

The service will be provided by Kiddlywinks, which also has a service in Ballintra, and will be subject to numbers. 

Fintra National School’s decision to launch the Breakfast Club comes just one month after a public meeting was held to discuss the school’s future, after the school enrolment declined on average by 15% per annum over the last ten years, leading to fears that the school would be closed. 

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It was reported that 80 people attended the meeting to discuss the issue.

After the meeting, Acting Principal, Aisling Meehan, told Donegal Live: “The plan, really, at the moment is that we have contacted some prospective parents who were at the meeting, who have school-age children, and we were asking them to survey the parents around the area about eligible school-age children, or children for the following years. To find out if people would be interested in sending children here, as parents have a choice of maybe three schools.”