In 1962 Madeline Dwyer bequeathed the people of Drumcondra a Parish Hall which has served our community for 60 years. Thanks to your support, her otherwise uncredited legacy has been saved. After a 4 year #SaveOurHall campaign, our Parish Hall has finally reopened to the pupils of Corpus Christi NS; to children in need of… Read More »The wait is over!
With our Parish Hall scheduled now to reopen in mid-October, the Minister for Special Education, Michael Moynihan is visiting this coming Wednesday, to review the progress of the renovation works. After 4 years of community campaigning, it has been very exciting this summer to finally see work underway to have this community hall reopened once… Read More »A visit from the Minister
On 26 Feb 2025 the Board of Management of Corpus Christi National School applied for planning permission to renovate the hall for school use. This is a welcome next step in returing the hall to school and community use. The application primarily covered the change of use of the existing Parish Hall to educational use… Read More »Planning application for works
We’re delighted to announce that, after a long period of absence, Madeline Dwyer’s Parochial Hall is being return to Corpus Christi Girls’ National School and the Community. What an outcome! It has been a long road and there are many details to be ironed out but this milestone would not have been possible without support… Read More »Hall to be returned to school and community use
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Our recent communications with the Department of Education have revealed that discussions have commenced between the Diocese and the Department of Education for the hall to be divested to the Department of Education. The intent is to provide general purpose space (e.g. physical education, assembly, etc.) and a special educational needs classroom for Corpus Christi… Read More »Hall update – divestment
The Dublin City Development Plan 2022-2028 came into effect on the 14th of December 2022. As a result of a lot of effort by the community there are two significant entries in the plan that will safeguard the future community use of the hall. 1. Specific objective A specific objective has been placed in the… Read More »New Dublin City Development Plan comes into effect
We had a very good meeting with Minister Foley today who was generous with her time. We outlined the campaign to date. We formally outlined our desire to restore the hall to school and community use and offered to participate in finding a solution to managing that aspect as needed. It was a positive first… Read More »Meeting with Minister for Education, Norma Foley TD
It has been a busy few months since the Save Our Hall Campaign Committee was formed in January 2022 with the goal of re-opening Corpus Christi Parish Hall for school and community use. All along we have had fantastic support from the community including: A newsletter outlining some of our community’s achievements can be downloaded… Read More »Newsletter Winter 2022
Thank you for signing our Uplift petition asking the Department of Education to evaluate Corpus Christi School. Archdiocese of Dublin has allowed the parish, assembly & PE hall remain closed since 2020. Our girls deserve better! Looking forward to meeting with Norma Foley – TD Dublin People article