Councillor: County Down school site sale back on 18 November 2013 Last updated at 22:35 By Maggie Taggart BBC Northern Ireland education correspondent A Down District councillor who feared a deal to buy land from the Catholic church was in jeopardy, has said she has been told the deal is back on. The council believed it had an agreement with a Catholic parish on the sale of the former St Mary's primary school, to build a leisure centre. However, the council was then told there were two higher bids on the land. Cllr Carmel O'Boyle said the parish has told the council the deal will be honoured and the sale can go ahead. Earlier, Ms O'Boyle had described the move as "gazumping" although the estate agent involved said the land had not yet been sold. The chief executive of the council, John Dumigan, confirmed he had been told of the contact on Monday evening.