Wexford students have set up the first ever school-based Irish Countrywomen’s Association guild

A group of teenagers have set up the first ever school-based ICA guild, writes Helen O’Callaghan

THE Irish Countrywomen’s Association — set up over 100 years ago and largely populated through the decades by women from rural homes looking for a social get-out; an organisation where women dedicated themselves to baking cakes and making tea cosies, to flower demos, craft displays, and catering at parish functions.

Now, a pioneering bunch of Co Wexford schoolgirls is making history by setting up the first ever school-based ICA guild.