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St. Declan's NS flooded

araic88 · 2011-01-11 19:37:28

I heard St. Declan's NS was badly damaged with burst pipes over the Christmas holidays, and a pupil's mum told me she heard they could be closed until February. I know they missed a week - at least - with the snow along with most other schools in December so it's a very unfortunate time for that to happen, although I…

11-01-2011 08:37PM

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araic88

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I heard St. Declan's NS was badly damaged with burst pipes over the Christmas holidays, and a pupil's mum told me she heard they could be closed until February.
I know they missed a week - at least - with the snow along with most other schools in December so it's a very unfortunate time for that to happen, although I suppose they'd have had to close for longer had they not been on holidays anyway.
I wonder how parents are reacting, it must be very hard for working parents, but I feel sorry for the principal too as they can take a lot of flack for things out of their control (I don't know anything about pipes! Could it have been prevented?)

http://www.stdeclansns.com/burstpipesdec10.htm

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