Offaly Primary School Ask For Increase In SNA Allocation Hours

By Staff reporter · Midlands 103 · 26 August 2026

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Cloghan National School currently only has an SNA for 3 hours and 12 minutes of the school day.

3 hours and 12 minutes - that’s how many SNA allocation hours per day is given to an Offaly primary school.

Cloghan National School is appealing to the Department of Education to increase that time to the full school day.

Over 90 pupils are currently enrolled there with 5 teachers.

Bronwyn Collins is one of those teachers ,and the Principal of Cloghan National School.

Reporting by Staff reporter for Midlands 103, funded by the News Reporting Scheme. Republished by News Room under the scheme’s reuse permission.