Coláiste Feirste

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Coláiste Feirste is the largest and the only second level Irish medium school in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Previously known as Méanscoil Feirste, the gaelscoil is located in the west of the city. Founded in 1991 with just nine pupils in makeshift rooms, today the school has around 600 pupils and a new state of the art facility on Belfast's Falls Road.

The school was first situated in the Cultúrlann with the teachers having to take on several over subjects and having to work after school as handy-men and women.^{[citation needed]} The school was opened under the care of the first school principal Fergus O'Hare who has, as of 2002, moved on to other projects and left Garai Mac Roibeaird as principal.^{[citation needed]} The schools uniform consists of a distinctive green blazer, jumper, and green skirt (for girls).

There are plans underway to turn the nearby Beechmount Leisure Centre into the school's sports complex. It will be shared with St. Mary's University College, which is situated a short walk away on the Falls Road. The Leisure Centre was due to be closed by Belfast City Council, but the intervention of Coláiste Feirste appears to have saved it from demolition.^{[citation needed]}