A Sinn Fein Councillor in Strabane has accused an SDLP representative of reckless scaremongering for claiming that rural schools could close in West Tyrone.
Speaking on Highland Radio News during the week West Tyrone MLA, Joe Byrne claimed that 40 rural schools in Tyrone were under threat.
And he claimed that schools who didn’t have 105 pupils or more were the ones under threat of closure from the SF Education Minister.
But SF Cllr Maoliosa McHugh says no school will close because they don’t have a certain amount of pupils:
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