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Tue 09 Sep 2008A big first as two State-run community schools open
Community model primary schools are a major departure in a society where the schools are traditionally church-run, writes Genevieve Carbery
IT WAS a big day in the life of 4½-year-old Aaryan Kumar, as he skipped through the newly painted green doors of a school at 8.20am yesterday, but as one of the first of some 66 junior infants to start in the new school he was also making history.
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