Around 50 people attended a meeting last night which heard calls for an Irish language secondary school to be set up in Derry.
Tullyarvan Mill in Buncrana, home to Gaelcholáiste Chineal Eoghan.
While there are five Irish medium schools in the North West – in Derry, Limavady and Strabane – the only option open for parents who want their children to continue their education in Irish have to cross the border to Gaelcholáiste Chineal Eoghan, based at Tullyarvan Mill in Buncrana.
Oisin Mac Eochaidh, prinicpal of Gaelscoil na Daroige in Ballymagroarty, was of those who attended the meeting held in Rafters on Northland Road.
He said there was strong support for the establishment of an Irish language secondary school in the city.
He revealed parents of Irish medium school children had been surveyed by education authorities on two occasions in the past but added there had been little visible progression on the matter beyond this.
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