Chief Justice Ronan Keane will officially open the new Dublin 7 Educate Together School on Friday. The school is the nineteenth opened by the Educate Together organisation.

The group was formed 25 years ago to deliver multidenominational and intercultural programmes in primary schools.

The schools, set up by voluntary groups, are non-fee-paying and operate under the Department of Education's rules for national primary schools.

The D7ET school is the first multidenominational national school in the state not to have to serve a probationary period before being awarded the same level of support that denominational schools are granted from the start.

Many multidenominational schools have had to rely heavily on fundraising during the probationary period, but D7ET will receive 95 per cent state funding from the outset.

D7ET has been operating from a temporary base in a building owned by the Honourable Society of the King's Inns situated off Henrietta Street in Dublin.

There are already plans to move the school to a permanent location in the next few years.