A primary school in Carlow town has been advised not to open by garda\u00ed today, Wednesday, due to a threatening email.<\/p>\n
Several other schools around the county, it is understood, have also received similar emails, the nature of which is yet unclear.<\/p>\n
Some of the schools have decided to stay closed, while others have opened.<\/p>\n
Scoil Mhuire Gan Sm\u00e1l, an all-girls primary school located on Green Lane in the town, contacted all parents and guardians who hae pupils attending the school at 8.19am to alert them that the premises would not be opening.<\/p>\n
Scoil Mhuire Lourdes also issued a notice to parents and guardians at 9am, saying they are also to remain closed following a similar email.<\/p>\n
The message from Scoil Mhuire Gan Sm\u00e1l said that \u201cwe like some schools in the area, have received a threatening email this morning\u201d.<\/p>\n
The email contained: \u201cIn the interests of ensuring the safety and wellbeing of our school community, Scoil Mhuire gan Sm\u00e1l will remain closed today.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe safety of our pupils and staff is always our absolute priority. We are working closely with the appropriate agencies and will keep you informed of any further updates as information becomes available.\u201d<\/p>\n
Parents and guardians are being advised to follow updates directly from their own school and avoid sharing unverified information.<\/p>\n
The correspondence on Wednesday morning is from an \u201cunidentified\u201d source.<\/p>\n
Scoil Mhuire gan Sm\u00e1l has been contacted for comment.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed have received reports and are investigating.<\/p>\n
More to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A primary school in Carlow town has been advised not to open by garda\u00ed today, Wednesday, due to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-469347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}