Galway Bay fm newsroom – Construction on a new building for Clifden Community School is expected to get underway before the end of the year, despite concerns that the build might not happen until 2016.
Connemara area councillor Eileen Mannion says tenders are currently being assessed for the contract.
The existing school was built in 1979 and was never fully completed.
The project involves the demolition of the exisiting school and prefabs and the construction of a new two-storey and part three-storey school
Councillor Mannion says she’s hopeful construction will begin before the end of December.